Wildfire management can be improved through geodesy and geospatial science, offering proactive, evidence-based strategies and advanced technologies that enhance risk assessment, resource allocation, and response efforts. Geodesy and geospatial science are fundamental to wildfire management and can move the involved processes from reactive response to anticipatory, evidence-based action. Conventional measures such as fuel reduction, patrols, aircraft reconnaissance, emergency calls and firefighting crews remain essential, but geospatial systems add the spatial intelligence needed to act earlier and target resources more precisely. By integrating satellite, aircraft, drone and ground-based observations with other data on terrain, vegetation, and weather through classical and artificial intelligence (AI) methods, we can identify where risk is building, how a fire may evolve and which communities, infrastructure and ecosystems are most exposed. The geospatial data sets involved are vast. On the fundamental level, geodetic techniques provide all the reference systems for mapping, models and methods to operate the different platforms such as satellites, aircraft, and drones, as well as enable accurate positioning, navigation and timing. On the applied level, the geospatial technologies and …