trainings
Careers in wildland fire, fuels management, and prescribed fire require training, and many agencies and organizations offer a variety of trainings throughout the year. We post upcoming events on this page, but recommend checking the websites below and bookmarking them for for future reference.
Tall Timbers offers trainings for those that use wildland fire on the landscape. There’s multiple trainings offered at state, regional, and federal levels.
National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center (NIPFTC) offers unique programs that blend prescribed (Rx) burning experience with a flexible curriculum covering foundational topics for prescribed fire practitioners and fire and fuels managers.
The Fire Networks events page posts upcoming TREX events and prescribed fire trainings exchanges.
Check your state department website for state and local partner-sponsored fire training courses.
The Joint Fire Science Program hosts webinars, trainings, and field days in regions around the U.S. You can check upcoming events with your local fire exchange network by clicking the relevant link below.
upcoming trainings
AFE is pleased to share announcements about upcoming trainings, like courses and TREX. If you would like to add a training to this page, please fill out this form. Email any questions to the following address: office@fireecology.net.
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This NWCG 5-day in person course is designed to provide entry level firefighter skills field; field ops time required.
The Student of Fire Initiative at the University of Idaho is offering M-410: Facilitative Instruction online March 23-April 3, 2026.
The Student of Fire Initiative at the University of Idaho is offering RX-310: Introduction to Fire Effects online March 23-April 17, 2026.
The course addresses the roles and responsibilities appropriate to a Task Force/Strike Team Leader operating in concert with a local or state-level AH IMT.
The Student of Fire Initiative is offering S-290: Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior April 6-17, 2026.
This two and a half day, in-person course provides a foundation for developing and running spatially-explicit wildfire hazard models using the BurnP3+ package for SyncroSim.
Niobrara Valley Preserve (NVP) 2026 Buffalo TREX will take place April 14-24, 2026 in Johnstown, Nebraska.
A two-day, two-night workshop designed to help women+ build confidence and technical skill with chainsaws.
The Ember Alliance is currently putting together a Wildland Fire Academy with their partners at Front Range Community College (FRCC) that will take place in April 2026 in Fort Collins, Colorado.
The Student of Fire Initiative at the University of Idaho is offering S-215: Fire Operations in the Wildland Urban Interface online April 20-May 1, 2026.
The 2026 Blackfoot Valley TREX will be held April 21 -May 1. The event will be based out of Lubrecht Experimental Forest in Greenough, MT 30 miles northeast of Missoula.
The objective of the two-week TREX program in Central Oregon is to facilitate peer-to-peer, experiential learning for prescribed fire professionals and others interested in advancing innovative tools to restore fire-adapted ecosystems.
CGTREX is a two-week training event intended to 1) build prescribed fire skills & knowledge through experiential training and 2) provide a boost to local capacity to accomplish burns across land ownerships in the Columbia Gorge region.
RX - 310 Introduction to Fire Effects Southern Appalachians is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and ability to recognize and communicate the relationship between fire effects and operations, understand how fire treatments influence ecological outcomes, as well as learn about the latest tools and techniques from wildland fire practitioners and researchers in the Southern Appalachians.
This hands-on workshop gives you the tools, techniques, and confidence to measure what fire actually does to the land over time. Whether you are working in forestry, restoration, prescribed fire, or wildfire risk reduction, understanding long-term fire effects is essential to planning better burns and proving success.
A two-day, two-night workshop designed to help women+ build confidence and technical skill with chainsaws.
