Given the advances in cyberinfrastructure and the Internet of Things, environmental sciences have vast potential to provide the community with real-time valuable information, including on hazards such as wildfires and floods. To facilitate access by everyone to environmental data, this project focuses on “democratizing” portions of an existing regional earthquake and wildfire science network in Nevada. The aim is to create transformative real-time crowd-participating environmental data services, assembled on the new Nevada Weather (NevWx) edge-to-edge platform developed in the project. Objectives attained in year 1 include: design of the network integration plan for deployment of sensor arrays and network equipment in the Lake Tahoe Basin mountainous areas; permit acquisition for sensor and equipment installation in the Caldor Fire Perimeter near South Lake Tahoe; design and implementation of an operational lab-based pilot edge-to-edge system; requirements established for the project’s web portal; and design of a user study for acquiring stakeholders’ feedback.