How to setup notifications

Bushfire.io allows you to receive notifications when fires, floods, storms, or other types of warnings or incidents occur anywhere in Australia, Canada and the USA.

We want to make sure you receive what is important to you, but there’s a lot going on across the country and we don’t want to spam you (our Pro users can be spammed if they opt-in! Or they can just receive major warnings from across the country).

Free vs Pro notifications

• Bushfire.io Free Users: Push Notifications with 75km limit.
• Bushfire.io Pro Users: Push Notifications + SMS, and can use polygons (e.g., so you can select an entire state, or all of Australia/USA).
• See more details here.

Make sure you’re logged in to manage your notifications. We require you to login so you can securely manage multiple notifications, across devices. This makes it easier to remove or change notifications, and it allows you to share rules across devices.

Create a new notification (search)

If you’re using an updated version of Bushfire.io (late December 2022), it’s now much easier to setup notifications by searching for an area of interest. So, make sure your app is updated 🙂

1. Go to Notifications and select Create a Notification – go straight there.
2. Search for the name of a location of interest to you.
3. Select what notifications you want to receive: Do you want to receive warnings (major events), incidents (not usually major events), both, or something else?
4. It’s worth checking what’s selected in Advanced to make sure you’re happy with the options selected and the notification area/radius.
5. Select Save.

Create a new notification (polygon tool for Pro users)

For our Pro users. Check out other cool Pro features here.

1. Draw a polygon around an area of interest.
2. Select Setup Notification.
3. Configure a notification as you usually would.

Create a new notification (circle tool)

If you’re using an older version of Bushfire.io, or you’d like the full power of creating a circle around an area of interest you can create a circle up to a radius of 75km.

1. Go to an area of interest on the map. You can search or manually move to the area of interest, zoom in if you can’t see the area clearly.
2. Draw your circle by selecting the circle icon, from the draw tool on the right. Tap and hold in the middle of an area of interest on the map, and the dragging out (while still tapping/holding the screen). You’ll see the circle grow.
3. Select Setup Notification from the popup.
4. Setup the notification area you desire. Give the notification a name – this will be included when you receive notifications. Choose any options you would like on/off.
5. Select Save Notification. You’ll now be taken to the Notification screen. Check any warnings which are shown there. From this screen you can view recent notifications, Notification Rules and Devices which receive notifications.
6. Make sure your “device is setup to receive notifications,” by selecting Enable now and toggling notifications on.

How to edit or remove a notification rule

1. Login to Bushfire.io.
2. Go to Notifications.
3. Scroll to Notification Rules, then select Manage for the rule you would like to change.
4. Change the notification as you wish and select Save OR select Delete.
5. You’ll be taken back to the Notification screen.

If you’re having trouble setting up notifications

• Did you get the test notification, it should have said Welcome to Bushfire.io Notifications? If you didn’t, check out this guide.
• Or reach out to support!