Rain Indus­tries launched in 2019 to pre­vent cat­a­stroph­ic wild­fires using a dis­trib­uted net­work of autonomous air­craft locat­ed in high-wild­fire-risk regions, which respond to igni­tions with­in sec­onds and con­tain them with­in min­utes. The com­pa­ny is head­quar­tered in Alame­da, CA.