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2nd International Workshop on Extreme Wildfire Events

EFI Associated Event
22 June 2026 – 25 June 2026 Prague, Czechia Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences
Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
forest fire

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Paulo M.F. Pires, Adobe Stock

The X-Fire Workshop aims to serve as a focused international forum for advancing knowledge on the unique challenges of extreme wildfire events through the exchange of scientific and operational insights. The Workshop is structured around the following key objectives:

  • Enhance understanding of extreme wildfire events by integrating up-to-date knowledge from multiple scientific disciplines, including –but not limited to– physics, meteorology, fire ecology, fuel dynamics, numerical modeling, machine learning, and remote sensing.
  • Identify research gaps and challenges in observing, modeling, predicting, and managing extreme wildfire events.
  • Facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers, operational experts, and policymakers to develop innovative methodologies, enhance predictive capabilities, improve decision-making, and identify lessons learned from past events to inform best practices in extreme wildfire events management.

By creating a focused scientific and operational exchange on extreme wildfire events, X-Fire aims to fill a critical gap, ensuring that the complexities of these events receive sustained attention and interdisciplinary collaboration.

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