FireScope: Wildfire Risk Prediction with a Chain-of-Thought Oracle

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17171v1
• Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:45:22 GMT
• Title: FireScope: Wildfire Risk Prediction with a Chain-of-Thought Oracle
• Authors: Mario Markov, Stefan Maria Ailuro, Luc Van Gool, Konrad Schindler, Danda Pani Paudel,
• Abstract summary: Existing methods lack the causal reasoning and understanding required for reliable generalization.<n>We introduce $textbfFireScope-Bench, a dataset and benchmark that couples Sentinel-2 imagery and climate data with expert-defined risks.<n>When trained in the USA and tested in Europe, $textbfFireScope$ achieves substantial performance gains.<n>Our findings demonstrate that reasoning can ground prediction models, improving both generalization and interpretability.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Predicting wildfire risk is a reasoning-intensive spatial problem that requires the integration of visual, climatic, and geographic factors to infer continuous risk maps. Existing methods lack the causal reasoning and multimodal understanding required for reliable generalization. We introduce $\textbf{FireScope-Bench}$, a large-scale dataset and benchmark that couples Sentinel-2 imagery and climate data with expert-defined risk rasters across the USA, and real wildfire events in Europe for cross-continental evaluation. Building on this dataset, we propose $\textbf{FireScope}$, a VLM-based reasoning-to-generation framework that learns from both reinforcement learning and visual supervision to predict risk rasters with complementary reasoning traces. When trained in the USA and tested in Europe, $\textbf{FireScope}$ achieves substantial performance gains, while expert feedback and automated analysis confirm that its reasoning traces are faithful and semantically meaningful. Our findings demonstrate that reasoning can ground raster prediction models, improving both generalization and interpretability. To our knowledge, this is the first framework to (1) demonstrate that language-based reasoning can improve generalization in visual generation, (2) propose a high-resolution wildfire risk model that can be applied across continents, and (3) enable systematic studies of robust cross-continental generalization for multimodal fire risk models. We believe that $\textbf{FireScope-Bench}$ has the potential to serve as a foundation for advancing reasoning-driven, interpretable and generalizable spatial modeling. Data and source code will be made publicly available.

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