Generative AI as a Pillar for Predicting 2D and 3D Wildfire Spread: Beyond Physics-Based Models and Traditional Deep Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02485v2
• Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:09:46 GMT
• Title: Generative AI as a Pillar for Predicting 2D and 3D Wildfire Spread: Beyond Physics-Based Models and Traditional Deep Learning
• Authors: Haowen Xu, Sisi Zlatanova, Ruiyu Liang, Ismet Canbulat,
• Abstract summary: Wildfires increasingly threaten human life, ecosystems, and infrastructure.<n>Existing physics-based and deep learning models struggle to capture dynamic wildfire spread across both 2D and 3D domains.<n>This paper explores how generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) models can serve as transformative tools for wildfire prediction and simulation.
• Score: 4.582541339132966
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Wildfires increasingly threaten human life, ecosystems, and infrastructure, with events like the 2025 Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles County underscoring the urgent need for more advanced prediction frameworks. Existing physics-based and deep learning models struggle to capture dynamic wildfire spread across both 2D and 3D domains, especially when incorporating real-time, multimodal geospatial data. This paper explores how generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) models-such as GANs, VAEs, and Transformers-can serve as transformative tools for wildfire prediction and simulation. These models offer superior capabilities in managing uncertainty, integrating multimodal inputs, and generating realistic, scalable wildfire scenarios. We introduce a new paradigm that leverages large language models (LLMs) for literature synthesis, classification, and knowledge extraction, conducting a systematic review of recent studies applying generative AI to fire prediction and monitoring. We highlight how generative approaches uniquely address challenges faced by traditional simulation and deep learning methods. Finally, we outline five key future directions for generative AI in wildfire management, including unified multimodal modeling of 2D and 3D dynamics, agentic AI systems and chatbots for decision intelligence, and real-time scenario generation on mobile devices, along with a discussion of critical challenges. Our findings advocate for a paradigm shift toward multimodal generative frameworks to support proactive, data-informed wildfire response.

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