Why we created Darkhorse Risk
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City leaders want to help. They need something they can see.
Making the case for home safety visits, fire education, or resource reallocation is hard when all you have is static PDFs and gut instinct.
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Most tools aren’t keeping up with risk reduction.
Call volumes climb, budgets tighten, and root causes like aging buildings and high-risk populations go unaddressed. Departments get stuck reacting instead of preventing.
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Traditional CRAs are stale before they’re printed.
Spend thousands on a one-time assessment, or build one manually from outdated spreadsheets. Either way: a binder full of charts no one has time to read.
Key Features
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Connected Data
50+ datasets. One risk picture.
US CENSUS · HIFLD · CDC
NFIRS · PARCEL DATA · LOCAL CAD
YOUR CRA
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Fast Implementation
From data to action in days.
TRADITIONAL CRA
12 MO
DARKHORSE RISK
DAYS
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Always Up To Date
A CRA that never goes stale.
LIVING CRA · CURRENT
PRINTED BINDER · DECAYING
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Presentation Ready
Walk into council with the answer.
SHARE · EXPORT · PRESENT
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Custom Risk Scoring
A method you can defend.
PROBABILITY
CONSEQUENCE
IMPACT
WEIGHTS YOU SET. A PROCESS YOU CAN TEST.
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Modern & Intuitive UX
Zero guesswork. For everyone.
ANALYSTS · CHIEFS · PREVENTION OFFICERS
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Structure Fire Risk
Risk scored building by building.
BUILDING
OCCUPANCY
VULNERABILITY
EVERY PARCEL RANKED. INSPECTIONS TARGETED.
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Watch Darkhorse Risk in action
Darrell Reid, retired Fire Chief and City Administrative Officer, walks through the four pillars of Darkhorse Risk in four short films.
1:02
EPISODE 01
Geospatial, Multi-Axis Risk Assessment
DARRELL REID · RETIRED FIRE CHIEF & CAO
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EPISODE 02
Custom Risk Scoring
DARRELL REID · RETIRED FIRE CHIEF & CAO
0:55
EPISODE 03
Four-Factor Consequence
DARRELL REID · RETIRED FIRE CHIEF & CAO
0:59
EPISODE 04
Probable Incident Frequency
DARRELL REID · RETIRED FIRE CHIEF & CAO
reclaim your budget
Fuel, staffing, wear on apparatus, and time lost for the next call. Prevention pays. Drag the slider and see how.
The assumptions behind this model
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15,000
calls per year
A mid-size career department serving roughly 100,000 to 150,000 residents. US fire departments answered 33.3 million calls in 2024 (NFIRS), and EMS now drives close to two thirds of that volume.
30%
addressable by prevention
Not the share that disappears, the share prevention work can target: false alarm and good-intent runs (about 7% of calls), older-adult falls and repeat lift assists, low-acuity EMS, and cooking fires.
$650
blended cost per response
Crew time, apparatus, supplies, dispatch and records, plus each call’s share of station, training and admin. Budget-derived figures cluster near $550 to $700.
Testimonials
Next Steps
No year-long onboarding. From data to action in days, not months.