Case Study: Santa Barbara County Fire Department boosts wildfire inspection efficiency with Fulcrum

Santa Barbara County Fire Department boosts inspection completion to 90% with Fulcrum

The Santa Barbara County Fire Department faced the challenge of efficiently conducting over 16,000 annual defensible space inspections for wildfire prevention using a cumbersome paper-based system. This process provided no visibility into workloads across its 16 stations, leading to inconsistent coverage and an inability to identify high-risk properties. They turned to Fulcrum for a mobile data collection solution to gain real-time insights and streamline this critical task.

By implementing Fulcrum's customizable platform, the department decentralized data collection and created intuitive, auto-populating digital forms for inspectors. This solution dramatically increased efficiency, enabling inspectors to complete up to 20 inspections per day compared to just three previously. As a result, the Fulcrum system helped the department boost its inspection completion rate from less than half to 90% of county properties in 2019, while also improving resource allocation through real-time map-based tracking.

Santa Barbara County Fire Department