Your private aerialwildfire-prevention service.

Drone-applied preventative treatment for your vegetation and defensible space.

Defense Assessment

Assessment at no cost.
Residential • Municipal • Utility • Commercial • Infrastructure

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The Process

Mapped for precision. Applied for protection.

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Defense Assessment

Before you spend anything, you know what protecting your property is expected to require and cost. Receive mapped treatment zones, aerial operating requirements, and an estimated treatment cost, with optional roof-treatment and fixed-system estimates.

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Custom Aether Protection Plan

Your property-specific flight path, estimated material volume, treatment zones, and application requirements form a pre-engineered aerial mission, not a one-size-fits-all spray plan.

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Choose Your Protection

Choose Drone Protection, standalone Fixed-System Protection, or Drone + Fixed-System Protection. A fixed system does not require drone membership.

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Aerial Protection Membership

A 12-month commitment keeps your property mapped and mission-ready within Aether’s operating network, with monitoring, ongoing plan updates, and priority access to aerial response capability.

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Property-Specific Deployment Pricing

Your assessment establishes an aerial treatment estimate in advance. Each application is priced from the approved plan’s treatment zones, material volume, and operating requirements, separately from membership.

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Automated Protection Mode

Core to your membership: authorization is established during onboarding. When Aether’s defined local risk and deployment conditions are met, your prepared plan enters the deployment workflow automatically, subject to safety, weather, airspace, regulations, operational capacity, and your service agreement. You receive text/email notifications and status updates.

Operator Credentials

Qualified for complex aerial operations.

Our pilots hold federal and state authorizations for aerial application, night operations, and flights beyond visual line of sight. Select a credential to see what it allows us to do.

FAA 107
FAA Part 107 — Remote Pilot
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FAA commercial drone pilot certification required for commercial UAS operations in the National Airspace System.

FAA 137
FAA Part 137 — Agricultural Aircraft Operator
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Federal certification for aerial application. Includes standard, nighttime, BVLOS, and swarming operations.

FAA 44807
FAA Section 44807 — Heavy-Lift UAS
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FAA authorization for large unmanned aircraft over 55 lbs — the heavy-lift platforms used for high-volume application.

FAA BVLOS
FAA BVLOS Authorization
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FAA authorization for Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations — required for extended-range drone flights beyond the pilot's unaided visual range.

CA DPR UAS
CA DPR Journeyman UAS Pilot
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California Department of Pesticide Regulation pilot credential for commercial aerial application in California.

CA DPR QAL
CA DPR Qualified Applicator License
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California license covering the mixing, loading, and handling of regulated materials for aerial application.

Credential badges are designed by Aether Fire Protech to represent credentials held by our aerial operations team. They are not issued by, or an endorsement from, the FAA or the California Department of Pesticide Regulation.

Drone in flight above a coastal hillside, with buildings and the ocean in the background.
Plans

Choose your protection. Start with a custom plan.

Aether digitally prepares your property before the threat exists: mapping it, engineering the aerial mission, and calculating treatment requirements and pricing. With authorization established during onboarding, your prepared plan enters the response workflow automatically when Aether’s defined local risk and deployment conditions are met, subject to safety, weather, airspace, regulations, operational capacity, and your service agreement.

✓Aerial Property Intelligence & Mapping

High-resolution aerial analysis maps vegetation density, fuel zones, access constraints, treatment areas, and aircraft operating requirements. We calculate the estimated retardant volume and deployment profile specific to your property.

Your assessment provides treatment zones, estimated gallons/material volume, a custom flight path, dispersal/application requirements, and an estimated aerial treatment cost, plus optional roof-treatment and fixed-system estimates where appropriate. Before you spend anything, you know what protecting your property is expected to require and cost.

✓Custom Flight Paths & Application Planning

Your Aether Protection Plan defines property-specific flight paths, treatment zones, application volumes, and dispersal parameters so the aircraft arrive with a pre-engineered mission, not a one-size-fits-all spray plan.

✓Wildfire Intelligence & Deployment Readiness

Your property remains mapped and mission-ready within Aether’s operating network. Our platform combines advanced wildfire and weather intelligence, AI-assisted risk analysis, property-specific fuel conditions, and your pre-engineered aerial mission plan to continuously evaluate deployment readiness. When defined risk thresholds are reached, Aether’s system moves the property into response status and activates the prepared drone-response workflow.

Think of it as mission control for your property: continuously monitoring conditions, calculating risk, and keeping your aerial protection plan ready for deployment.

Deployment follows the authorization established during onboarding and remains subject to safety, weather, airspace, regulatory conditions, operational capacity, and your service agreement.

✓Automated Protection Mode

Automated Protection Mode is core to your membership. Your property is already mapped, your aerial mission is already engineered, and your deployment requirements are already on file. When Aether’s defined wildfire and weather-risk thresholds are reached, the system moves your property into response status and activates the prepared deployment workflow, subject to safety, weather, airspace, regulatory conditions, operational capacity, and your service agreement. You receive text/email notifications and status updates as the protection plan moves into action.

Customer authorization is established during onboarding and in your service agreement, rather than requiring a new approval for each deployment. A Red Flag Warning alone does not trigger spraying. Activation considers local fire/weather risk, property conditions, operational availability, and Aether’s deployment protocol.

Onboarding establishes a treatment estimate in advance. Automated deployment follows the approved property plan and the authorization terms in your service agreement; application charges are separate from membership.

✓Drone Application to Vegetation

Heavy-lift UAVs apply CitroTech fire retardant across vegetation, fuel zones, and your defensible space perimeter.

✓Hillside & Perimeter Fuel Treatment

Trees, shrubs, brush, and hillside zones, including terrain ground crews can't safely reach.

✓Canopy & Treetop Treatment

Protecting the property in three dimensions. Heavy-lift drones can access elevated vegetation, tree canopies, steep terrain, and other areas that may be difficult, dangerous, or impractical for ground crews, allowing the protection plan to address fuel zones in three dimensions, not just at ground level.

✓Roof Treatment · Optional

Where appropriate, Aether can include full-roof aerial retardant application as part of the property protection plan, particularly for properties without a Class A-rated roof or for homeowners seeking an additional protective layer.

This optional treatment does not change a roof’s fire rating, and a Class A-rated roof does not require it. Your assessment can include a property-specific roof-treatment estimate alongside a fixed-system estimate where appropriate.

✓Property-Specific Deployment Pricing

Each application is priced from your approved protection plan based on treatment zones, required material volume, and operating requirements. Your assessment establishes an expected aerial treatment cost before enrollment. Materials and actual application/deployment charges are separate from the monthly membership fee.

✓Treatment Documentation Reports

Video confirmation and application specifications delivered within 24 hours of treatment, for your records and to provide to insurance agencies.

✓CitroTech Safe Chemistry

Safe for people, pets, plants, and property.

Formulated without PFAS, phosphates, or halogens. Biodegradable, non-corrosive, and dries clear.

See Science & Safety below

✓Drone Application: Zero Ground Crew Footprint

No ground crews will disturb your vegetation. No permits are required for application. We don’t need to set foot on your property.

Drone membership

Drone Protection

Your private aerial wildfire-prevention service.

$299/month

12-month membership commitment

Mapped · Flight Paths Ready · Monitored · Deployment Ready

  • Property mapping, documentation, and custom flight paths
  • Treatment zones, application requirements, and dispersal planning
  • Wildfire/weather monitoring and ongoing protection-plan updates
  • Deployment readiness and priority access to Aether’s operational response network
  • Core Automated Protection Mode with authorization established during onboarding, subject to deployment conditions and your service agreement

Membership maintains your property’s readiness, customization, monitoring, and access. Your assessment establishes an expected treatment cost in advance. Materials and actual deployments are priced to your approved property plan and billed separately, not included in membership. No unlimited applications.

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Standalone service

Fixed-System Protection

Choose a fixed/hard fire-protection system without enrolling in drone membership. Where appropriate, your assessment can include a system assessment and installation estimate. Optional full-roof aerial treatment can also be assessed as a separate property-specific service.

  • Property-specific system design
  • Installation of an appropriate fixed/hard system
  • Available on its own, not only as a membership add-on
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Combined protection

Drone + Fixed-System Protection

Combine drone readiness and a fixed/hard system for a layered property-defense approach, guided by your Custom Aether Protection Plan.

  • Drone membership for planning, monitoring, and readiness
  • Property-specific fixed-system design and installation
  • Application/deployment quoted separately from membership
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Actual application & deployment

Property-Specific Deployment Pricing

Each application is priced from your approved protection plan based on treatment zones, required material volume, and operating requirements. Your assessment establishes expected treatment requirements and cost in advance. Materials and actual application/deployment charges remain separate from membership.

Onboarding establishes the treatment estimate and customer authorization for Automated Protection Mode. When Aether’s defined local risk and deployment conditions are met, the prepared plan enters the deployment workflow automatically under your service agreement, subject to safety, weather, airspace, regulatory conditions, and operational capacity.

Membership is not insurance. Aether does not replace the fire department or guarantee that a property cannot burn.

Science & Safety

Independently tested.
Safer by design.

Fueled by our preferred partnerCitroTech
EPA Safer Choice markEPA Safer ChoiceIngredient safety · Renewed May 2026
UL GREENGUARD Gold markUL GREENGUARD GoldUL 2818 · Cert. #289426-420
ASTM E84 / E2768 markASTM E84 / E2768Class A · FSI 5 · SDI 0
QAI Laboratory Verification markQAI Laboratory VerificationIndependent lab verification
DrJ Engineering markDrJ EngineeringTechnical Evaluation Report TER 2504-101
Stillmeadow markStillmeadow96-hr aquatic toxicity · LC50 >750 mg/L
Save Our Wild Salmon markSave Our Wild SalmonTrout toxicity test

EPA Safer Choice

Safer Choice partnership renewed May 2026; 2024 Safer Choice Partner Award recipient. Recognizes ingredient safety.

CitroTech partner materials

Class A Surface Burning

ASTM E84/E2768 Class A. Flame-spread index 5 (max 25), smoke-developed index 0. QAI-certified.

QAI · TER 2504-101

Certification marks are shown as displayed by CitroTech for its products and remain the property of their respective owners. EPA Safer Choice recognition relates to ingredient safety, not fire performance.

Home Hardening & Defensible Space

Start with Cal Fire's guidance.
Build a property-specific plan.

Cal Fire recommends two steps: harden the home against embers, and keep defensible space around it. Aether’s drone service treats vegetation in your defensible space; fixed/hard-system design and installation are available separately or alongside drone protection. Home hardening is structural work, so use Cal Fire's guides as your checklist.

0–5 ft

Zone 0 · Ember-Resistant

Closest to the home. Follow Cal Fire's home hardening and Zone 0 guidance for roofs, vents, and nearby materials.

Homeowner · Cal Fire guide
5–30 ft

Zone 1 · Lean, Clean & Green

Maintained vegetation near the home. We apply retardant to plants, shrubs, and perimeter fuels.

Aether treatment
30–100 ft

Zone 2 · Reduce Fuel

Brush, trees, and hillside fuels. Our drones reach terrain ground crews can't safely access.

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Where We Operate

Serving all of California

Drone membership covers seven Southern California counties. Elsewhere in the state, we provide service with custom pricing. Start with a Defense Assessment to confirm the protection options for your location.

Drone Membership Zone

Southern California

Drone membership: $299/month with a 12-month commitment. Actual application/deployment is quoted separately from your approved property-specific protection plan.

Los Angeles County
San Diego County
Orange County
Riverside County
Ventura County
San Bernardino County
Santa Barbara County
Custom Pricing

Central & Northern California

We service these areas now with custom pricing or a quote. Begin with a Defense Assessment to discuss your property’s requirements and available services.

Drone memberships coming 2027

Institutional & Infrastructure Services

Custom aerial wildfire-prevention and deployment programs for public agencies, utilities, commercial properties, and critical infrastructure.

Municipal & Agency Programs
Wildfire-prevention planning, corridor protection, community assets, firebreak / pre-treatment support, and incident-response planning.
Prescribed / Controlled-Burn Support
Aerial application and perimeter-preparation support where appropriate, coordinated with the responsible fire authority and subject to appropriate approvals. Aether does not conduct or authorize prescribed burns.
Utilities & Critical Infrastructure
Vegetation and fuel treatment around utility corridors, substations, communications sites, and other critical assets.
Commercial & Large Properties
Campuses, HOAs, resorts, industrial sites, and large acreage requiring custom flight planning and application programs.
Custom Deployment Programs
Project-specific aircraft, pilots, chemistry volume, logistics, operating plans, and deployment protocols.

Custom scope. Custom deployment plan. Custom pricing.

Defense Assessment
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Defense Assessment

Before you spend anything, you know what protecting your property is expected to require and cost. Your assessment delivers treatment zones, estimated gallons/material volume, a custom flight path, dispersal/application requirements, and an estimated aerial treatment cost. Optional roof-treatment and fixed-system estimates can be included where appropriate.

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Aether Fire Protech

Proactive wildfire defense for California. Drone protection, standalone fixed-system protection, or both.

Fueled by CitroTech — Preferred Partner
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CitroTech is a registered trademark of CitroTech, Inc. Certification marks belong to their respective owners. Treatment results depend on site conditions, application parameters, and rainfall. Not a guarantee against fire damage.