Calendar of Events
See below for a list of our upcoming events, as well as events hosted by other organizations that might be of interest to the wildland fire science community. If you would like to add an event to this page, please fill out this form. Email any questions to office@fireecology.net.
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In this session, we’ll hear from Dr. Frank Lake, Ryan Reed, and Monique Wynecoop about how Tribes are using cultural and prescribed fire as vital land management tools in California and Washington. Speakers will share their experiences applying cultural fire on the ground, discuss benefits to ecosystems and communities, and reflect on lessons learned amid increasingly catastrophic wildfire seasons.
The Fire Lab Seminar Series provides a platform for researchers and managers to present their work in an environment that encourages critical thought, the free exchange of ideas, and knowledge discovery.
The 2020 Creek Fire burned ~380,000 acres in California's Sierra Nevada, destroying over 850 of 3,002 structures. Using pre-fire lidar data, Hannah Redford examined how near-structure fuel configurations influenced housing loss/survival across three fire stages.
The 4th International Smoke Symposium will take place at the Leigh Perkins Conservation Education Center in Tallahassee, Florida from March 23 to 27, 2026.
WUI 2026: Fighting Wildfire In a Changing World will be held March 24-26, 2026 in Reno, Nevada.
Join this webinar from the Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Fire Science Consortium and hear from Michelle Homann - a Ph.D. candidate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Integrative Biology who studies the effect of management decisions on restored tallgrass prairie plant communities.
Forest restoration and fuel reduction treatments are key tools for reducing future fire severity; however, land managers don’t have a good estimate for what percentage of the landscape needs to be treated to restore fire regimes and impact fire resilience. Join this webinar to learn about how treating larger areas in key locations impacts fire effects and how land managers can accomplish it.
Senior Spatial Ecologist Sarah Hagen will introduce the new Fire Needs Assessment website and show how it helps users understand landscape conditions and identify where fire is needed to support ecological health. The session covers what an FNA is, how it connects historical ecosystems, current vegetation, and fire regimes, and how anyone can explore fire needs using the site and its downloadable tools.
The Fire Lab Seminar Series provides a platform for researchers and managers to present their work in an environment that encourages critical thought, the free exchange of ideas, and knowledge discovery.
Join SAFE for SAFE Connections March with Dr. Victoria Donovan! SAFE Connections March will take place Friday, March 27 at 1pm PT/4pm ET.
The goal of this webinar is to take an in‑depth look at two of the most influential long‑term fire research efforts supported by the Joint Fire Science Program: the Fire and Fire Surrogate (FFS) Study and the Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project (SageSTEP). These landmark studies provide rare, decades‑long insights into how different fuel treatments and fire management strategies shape ecosystem resilience, fuel dynamics, vegetation structure, and wildlife habitat.
The 2026 After the Flames Conference and Workshop will take place April 6-9, 2026 in Cle Elum, Washington.
Students will share their work via webinar and connect with the fire and forestry community to establish productive working relationships.
The NOAA Firebird project has been working together since 2019 to study the impacts of prescribed fire in gulf coastal high marshes on three birds, the mottled duck, eastern black rail and yellow rail. This webinar will focus on our newly published prescribed fire manual, which contains our results to date on the application of fire, as well as several case studies.
The US Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance Summit 2026 will be held April 14-17, 2026 in Tucson, Arizona.
The 2026 Colorado Wildland Fire Conference will take place in Fort Collins on April 15-16, 2026.
This workshop, hosted by Southern Fire Exchange and the Consortium of Appalachian Fire Managers and Scientists, will provide landowners and fire professionals with scientific presentations, field demonstrations, and planning tools to help assess duff conditions, plan effective burns, and protect legacy and economically important trees. This workshop will facilitate an increased understanding of duff fire management and mitigation practices.
Students will share their work via webinar and connect with the fire and forestry community to establish productive working relationships.
Students will share their work via webinar and connect with the fire and forestry community to establish productive working relationships.
Prescribed fire is one of the most effective tools land managers and landowners have for maintaining fire-dependent ecosystems, improving habitat, and reducing hazardous fuel buildup that increases wildfire risk. Yet, coordinating multiple burns while waiting for the right weather conditions can be challenging. The Prescribed Burn Planner (PBP) was originally developed to help users plan and prioritize prescribed burns by providing weather forecasts for individual burn units, thus hopefully reducing the number of missed burn windows.
The 8th International Fire Behaviour and Fuels Conference will take place April 28-May 1, 2026 in Hobart, Tasmania.
The Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals 15th Biennial Conference will take place May 12-15, 2026 in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Western Collaborative Conservation Network Confluence 2026 will be held May 19-21, 2026 in Fort Collins, Colorado.
The Fueling Adaptation: Leveraging Community Capacity to Reduce Wildfire Risk team is wrapping up their research examining how communities in areas of high wildfire risk in Southwest Idaho are adapting to mitigate that risk, and how federal investments made by the U.S. Forest Service leverage existing capacities, networks, and adaptations in fire-prone landscapes.
The 8th Fire in Eastern Oak Forests Conference will take place June 2-4, 2026 in Bloomington, Indiana.
The International Association for Society and Natural Resources (IASNR) conference emphasizes local to global resource management issues, environmental issues, collaborative stakeholder processes, and the social impacts of natural resource management. It is also a venue for presenting cutting-edge research and engaging in productive discussions focused on the sustainable management of natural resources.
The North American Forest Ecology Workshop will take place June 23-26, 2026 in Missoula, Montana.
The 2026 North American Congress for Conservation & Restoration will take place July 12-16, 2026 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Wildland Fire Canada Conference 2026 and Canadian Smoke Forum will take place October 19-23, 2026 in Sasktoon, Saskatchewan.
The 10th International Conference on Forest Fire Research will take place in Coimbra, Portugal from October 31-November 6, 2026.
AFE’s journal, Fire Ecology, publishes peer-reviewed articles on all ecological and management aspects relating to wildland fire. Freely access journal articles and get details about submitting a manuscript.
