Is fortressfire.com legit or a scam?
Established wildfire risk assessment platform backed by industry partnerships, active business registration, and clean reputation despite minor antivirus detections.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
Critical risk detected
2 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page. Multiple independent checks — antivirus engines, browser safety blocklists, and threat databases — flagged this site. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
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MT Intelligence
FortressFire operates as Fortress Wildfire Insurance Group, LLC, a San Mateo-based company founded around 2019–2020 with approximately 13.7 years of domain history. The business is registered and active in California, with documented partnerships including the California Association of REALTORS (since January 2024), insurance carriers, and real estate professionals. Our web research found three positive mentions in industry publications and no scam reports, complaints, or fraud allegations across consumer-review databases. Two antivirus engines flagged the domain as malicious or suspicious; however, the hosting IP has zero abuse reports, SSL is valid, and the page content aligns with legitimate wildfire-risk services (aerial assessments, disclosure reports, mitigation planning). The absence of contact details on the homepage is a minor friction point but does not override the strong business-registration and partnership signals.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for fortressfire.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain fortressfire.com has been active for approximately 4994 days (~13.7 years); company operations and branding date to ~2019-2020 per LinkedIn and interviews.
- Operated by Fortress Wildfire Insurance Group, LLC (FWIG); offers Wildfire Disclosure Reports, aerial/on-site assessments, mitigation recommendations, and property protection services focused on California wildfire risks.
- Partnered with California Association of REALTORS (C.A.R.) since at least Jan 2024 to provide WFDRs for real estate transactions in line with AB38; also collaborates with distributors like PropertyID, Snap NHD.
- Leadership includes John Wall (Founder/CTO), with background in fire retardant logistics; company grew out of a fire retardant business used by CAL FIRE; has raised funding (PitchBook profile) and participates in insurance programs (e.g., w
- No scam reports, fraud complaints, negative Reddit/Trustpilot/BBB mentions, or lawsuits found in searches for "scam", "fraud", "complaint".
- Maintains professional presence on LinkedIn (11-50 employees, SF Bay Area), publishes sample reports/PDFs, has Canadian trademark for FORTRESSFIRE software, and references collaborations with IBHS, California DOI.
- Website includes standard terms with arbitration clause (Sacramento, CA); contact address listed as San Mateo, CA 94402.
- California Association of REALTORS (car.org)open
"The CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) has partnered with FortressFire to provide Wildfire Disclosure Reports (WFDRs) in California that document the specific vulnerabilities of a home and provide a roadmap for how to protect and "
- Reinsurance Newsopen
"FortressFire, BMS and EPIC launch Fine Art Wildfire Insurance program in California. This program delivers a full-spectrum wildfire solution, covering everything from data-driven risk evaluation to concierge mitigation planning."
- PR Newswireopen
"FortressFire Launches Onsite Wildfire Inspection Program to Prepare Homeowners for Optimal Insurability and Protect California Properties from Wildfire Threats."
Fortress Wildfire Insurance Group, LLC (d/b/a FortressFire), California-based (SF Bay Area/San Mateo), founded ~2019-2020, involved in SEC filings, SAM registration (2021), partnerships with C.A.R., CAL FIRE references, and insurance programs.
Our research confirmed FortressFire as a legitimate, active business registered in California (Fortress Wildfire Insurance Group, LLC, San Mateo-based, founded ~2019–2020). The company holds partnerships with the California Association of REALTORS (since January 2024), insurance carriers, and real estate platforms. Three positive industry mentions were found in C.A.R. media releases, Reinsurance News, and PR Newswire. Zero scam reports, fraud complaints, or negative consumer reviews were found across scam-report databases, review aggregators, or general web sources. The domain has been active for approximately 13.7 years, predating the company's current operations, which is consistent with a legitimate business that rebranded or repurposed an existing domain.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://fortressfire.com/
- 2200https://fortressfire.com/
Server Reputation
Avoid this site
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Do not interact with fortressfire.com
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags fortressfire.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — fortressfire.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. fortressfire.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 82 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- fortressfire.com is 13.7 years old, registered on 10/12/2012 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 3 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged fortressfire.com as malicious or suspicious (2 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. fortressfire.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- fortressfire.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 16, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around fortressfire.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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