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Whether the routes out are passable, documented before the season, not during it.
Evacuation route condition assessment is a dedicated BackRoadIntel program, built on the same corridor record. It documents egress readiness ahead of fire season and hands the community a dated visual record it holds itself.
It starts with the drive out.
BackRoadIntel began with a wildfire. Our founder watched the fire jump the lake, then scrambled to work out which forest service roads he could get his family out on — with no way to know which were even passable. In 2026 our president evacuated his own family off a Summerland farm, twice in one night, the first time toward the fire before the order widened.
Both times the missing thing was the same: a plain, current record of which roads were open, where the culverts had gone, which bridge was questionable. Not a live feed in the middle of the emergency — a dated baseline that already existed, captured on the drives already happening, so the decision on the worst day is a smaller one.
That's the whole program. The corridor out, documented before you need it, held by the community that depends on it.
“When you get evacuated, you flip into your lizard brain — you don't want to be taxed with complex decision-making.”Chris Stewart, president — after evacuating the Bald Range fire, Summerland, August 2026
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Why egress readiness belongs on a record.
Figures reflect widely reported 2023 Canadian wildfire-season totals, included for context. They are not a claim about any specific community's risk.
One corridor, documented across the season.
The core use case is a seasonal baseline: capture the evacuation corridor at the end of one fire season, again before the next, and on a cadence through it. A forest-service road doesn't fail all at once — a culvert scours, a shoulder sloughs, a bridge approach settles. Seen side by side, the change is obvious while there's still time to grade, clear or flag it.
Graded, drains clear, no defects. The condition to hold the corridor to.
Potholes and runoff in the tracks, shoulder starting to go. Fixable now, before it compounds.
Degraded surface — loose rock, ruts and washboard, many hazards. The corridor you'd evacuate on, at its worst.
Illustrative prototype. Production records open as hosted, view-only pages on a phone, no login.
The same record earns its keep every season.
Evacuation readiness is the headline, but a corridor captured on the drives already happening is useful long before and after the smoke.
Baseline the routes out ahead of fire and extreme-weather season — culverts, bridge approaches, choke points — so egress condition is on the record before the event, not discovered during it.
Vehicles already moving through winter build a picture of what's plowed, drifted or icing — plus driver feedback from the field — across corridors no single crew covers.
Ambulance and first-responder access, service roads and remote-community routes: a current record of what's passable for the vehicles that have to get through.
Because the same corridor is captured again and again, the value compounds — degradation, washouts and slow failures show up as change you can compare, fund and act on.
What the program documents.
Surface, shoulders, culverts and choke points along the routes out, captured on the drives already happening.
A dated baseline of passability before fire season, not a scramble during the event.
A hosted, view-only record the community keeps, to bring to funders, proponents and government tables.
Document the routes residents depend on regardless of who owns them, and bring the evidence to the owner.
A record of egress condition strengthens emergency planning documentation. It is not a live feed, not a routing service, and not a substitute for your emergency-management authority's decisions during an event.
What we don't claim.
Where budgets can't carry it
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