Edge-to-Cloud Swarm Coordination for wildfire evacuation logistics networks for low-power autonomous deployments Introduction: A Fire in the Silicon Valley It was 3 AM during a particularly dry August in California when I first truly understood the fragility of our centralized evacuation systems. I was debugging a distributed consensus protocol for a smart city project when the news broke: a wildfire had jumped containment lines near a major highway. Within hours, the cellular towers in the evacuation zone were overwhelmed. GPS routing apps failed. People were stuck in gridlock, and the logistics of getting emergency vehicles into the danger zone while civilians fled out became a nightmare of centralized coordination. That night, I sat staring at my terminal, watching the simulated traffic flow in my testbed collapse under load. I realized that the problem wasn't just about bandwidth—it was about decision latency and energy constraints .…