2nd International Workshop on Extreme Wildfire Events
23–25 June 2026 · FLD CZU, Prague, Czech Republic
08:00 – 09:00
✍️ Registration
09:00 – 09:15
Welcome & Opening
Welcome & Opening Remarks
X-Fire 2026 Organizing Committee
Morning Session
09:15 – 09:30
Nighttime Fire Intensification in the Mediterranean
Simon Schütze
09:30 – 09:45
A Quantitative Signal for PyroCb Formation based on the Firepower and Pyrocumulonimbus Firepower Threshold
Nestor Bravo Egea
09:45 – 10:00
Integration of Advanced Meteorological Analysis in High-Fidelity Reconstruction of Coastal WUI Wildfires — Pisak 2025
Nikolaos Kamakiotis
10:00 – 10:15
Uncertainty-Aware Physics-Based Wildfire Prediction via Mapped Multi-Fidelity Modeling
Konstantinos Vogiatzoglou
10:15 – 10:30
Development of a Methodology for Daily Fire Exposure Assessment Based on Stochastic Fire Behaviour Simulations
Hugo Miguel Pinto Ferreira Velhinho
10:30 – 10:45
Deep Learning Wildfire Scenario Modelling: A Case Study for iFire 2.0
Renhao Huang
10:45 – 11:15
☕️ Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:30
The Effect of Cold Front Passage on Wildfires: Examples from Greece
Gavriil Xanthopoulos
11:30 – 11:45
Extreme Fire Behavior Characterization through Airborne Infrared Observation
Mario Miguel Valero Pérez
11:45 – 12:00
Atmospheric Dynamics Associated with the Pyroconvective Wildfires in Canada during the Early 2025 Fire Season
Georgios Papavasileiou
12:00 – 12:15
Image-Based Wildfire Behavior Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks
Jakov Bejo
12:15 – 12:30
Meteorological Analysis of the 2025 Pisak Wildfire
Jasmina Dobranić
12:30 – 12:45
Hydro-Atmospheric Drivers of Extreme Wildfire Risk: A Multi-Sensor Analysis Using GNSS PWV, GRACE, and GLDAS
Selma Zengin Kazancı
12:45 – 14:00
🍽️ Lunch Break (self-paid)
Afternoon Session
14:00 – 15:30
Live Demonstration
🎥 iFire 2.0 AI
15:30 – 16:00
☕️ Coffee Break
16:00 – 18:00
Parallel Sessions
Core Group
Core Group Meeting
Action Core Group
Applied GIS & Remote Sensing · Module 1
Core GIS Foundations for Wildfire Applications
Hossein Chavoshi & Maryam Teimouri
Poster Session
Poster presentations:
Aurora Matteo — Challenges in assessing Fire Weather changes in a warming climate Farzad Ghasemiazma — Two-Regime Modeling of Extreme and Common Wildfires in Italy Ilknur Alpak — Interpretable ML-Based Wildfire Susceptibility Mapping in a Mediterranean Landscape: The Muğla Case Tamires Bertocco — The protective role of lameiros against recurrent wildfires in transboundary Mediterranean basins Paula Olivera Prieto — A Unified Observational Dataset of Extreme Wildfire Events in Europe Pegah Aflakian — Event-Based Copula Modeling of Compound Fire-Weather Extremes in a Moderate-Risk Region Zarmina Zahoor — Emergence of extreme wildfire events across South Asia: Observed regime shifts and future fire weather under a changing climate
Evening
19:00 – 21:00
To be confirmed
🥂 Ice-Breaking Gathering (self-paid)
08:00 – 09:00
✍️ Registration
Morning Session
09:00 – 09:45
Solicited Talk — 45 min
Incident Command System — Organizational Structure and Elements
Zsolt Katay
09:45 – 10:00
Operationalizing Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Simulations for Extreme Wildfires: Insights from the EUBURN Programme and SILEX Campaign
Jean-Baptiste Filippi
10:00 – 10:15
Impact of Increased Resolution on FWI in High-Resolution Meso-NH Simulations
Cátia Isabel Nunes Campos
10:15 – 10:30
Integrated Firefighting Robot–Truck Operations for Wildfire Suppression: A Mathematical Modelling Approach
Mahdi Bashiri
10:30 – 11:00
☕️ Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30
Live Demonstration
🎥 iFire 2.0 AI
12:30 – 14:00
🍽️ Lunch Break (self-paid)
Afternoon Session
14:00 – 14:15
Climate-Driven Fire Weather Forecasting for Italy (2007–2024)
Luis Angel Espinosa
14:15 – 14:30
Canyon-Induced Fire Acceleration and its Integration in Eruptive Fire Early Warning System
Darko Stipaničev
14:30 – 14:45
Mapping the Risk of Large Wildfires in Serbia under Climate Change Using Machine Learning
Slobodan Milanović
14:45 – 15:00
Fire Patterns in the Himalaya and their Meteorological Drivers from km-Scale ICON-CLM Simulations
Prashant Singh
15:00 – 15:15
Vaia, Bark Beetles in the NE Alps are Changing Wildfire Hazard at the Stand and Landscape Scales
Cinzia Passamani
15:15 – 15:30
Attribution and Future Risk of Extreme Mediterranean Fire Weather
Jonathan Eden
15:30 – 16:00
☕️ Coffee Break
16:00 – 18:00
Parallel Sessions
Applied GIS & Remote Sensing · Module 2
Burned Area Mapping + GIS Analytical Layers
Hossein Chavoshi & Maryam Teimouri
Poster Session
Poster presentations:
Aurora Matteo — Challenges in assessing Fire Weather changes in a warming climate Farzad Ghasemiazma — Two-Regime Modeling of Extreme and Common Wildfires in Italy Ilknur Alpak — Interpretable ML-Based Wildfire Susceptibility Mapping in a Mediterranean Landscape: The Muğla Case Tamires Bertocco — The protective role of lameiros against recurrent wildfires in transboundary Mediterranean basins Paula Olivera Prieto — A Unified Observational Dataset of Extreme Wildfire Events in Europe Pegah Aflakian — Event-Based Copula Modeling of Compound Fire-Weather Extremes in a Moderate-Risk Region Zarmina Zahoor — Emergence of extreme wildfire events across South Asia: Observed regime shifts and future fire weather under a changing climate
Evening
19:00 – 21:00
To be confirmed
🍷 Official Workshop Dinner (self-paid)
08:00 – 09:00
✍️ Registration
Morning Session
09:00 – 09:15
Bridging Science and Operations: An Operational Platform for Fire Weather Intelligence and Open Data Access in Europe
Daan Aerts
09:15 – 09:30
Suppression Difficulty Index for Strategic Wildfire Response Planning: A Case Study from the Křivoklátsko Protected Landscape Area (Czech Republic)
Lucie Kudlackova
09:30 – 09:45
Wildfire Hazard for Seveso Installations
Rafal Porowski
09:45 – 10:00
Assessment of Fire Risk near Linear Infrastructure: Corridor-Based Evaluation
Jan Hora
10:00 – 10:15
Assessing Wildfire Susceptibility Utilizing Geospatial Datasets and Machine Learning Methods
Venkata Suresh Babu Kukkala
10:15 – 10:30
Integrating Scientific Risk Assessment and Policy Instruments in European Wildfire Risk Management: A Multilevel Comparative Perspective
Todor Nickolov Stoyanov
10:30 – 11:00
☕️ Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:15
Slovenian Case Study — Wind Impact on 2022 Goriški Kras Wildfire Progression
Jaša Saražin
11:15 – 11:30
Global increases in anomalous wildfire intensity and regime volatility
Zak Derler
11:30 – 11:45
Understanding Fire Rate of Spread Drivers Using a Machine Learning Approach
Rafael da Rosa Oliveira
11:45 – 12:00
Approaching Terminal-Velocity of Large Firebrands for Extreme Fire Events
Fabian Brännström
12:00 – 12:15
Drivers of Plant Auto-Ignition
Bruno Coudour
12:15 – 12:30
Fire Behavior Driver Classification from Geospatial Features
