The largest international wildland fire conference is heading back to Australia in 2028.
The 9th International Wildland Fire Conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia, from 4-7 April 2028 under the theme of “Fire Knowledge, shared across the world”.
The once in every four years event was announced this week at the opening of the AFAC26 conference in Melbourne, which is being held at the same venue as the 2028 event.
The 9th IWFC aims to attract fire and emergency management practitioners, policymakers, scientists and researchers from around the world with the goal of sharing knowledge and shaping the future of wildland fire management.
Locally, the 9th IWFC will be hosted by the Australian and New Zealand Council for Fire and Emergency Services (AFAC), with the support of Australian and international partners including the International Association of Wildland Fire, Australia’s National Emergency Management Agency, US Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Canada, Canada Interagency Forest Fire Centre and others.
The International Liaison Committee (ILC) – a partner of the UN Global Fire Management Hub – acts as the advisory and liaison body to each conference host. The ILC brings together representatives from previous host nations and key global fire organisations, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Global Fire Monitoring Center and the International Tropical Timber Organization.
The 2028 conference will be held alongside the 2nd United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Global Fire Management Hub Plenary.
The International Wildland Fire Conference began in Boston, US, in 1989. Since then, the conference has been held roughly every four years, moving between continents:
- 1st IWFC — Boston, United States, 1989
- 2nd IWFC — Vancouver, Canada, 1997
- 3rd IWFC — Sydney, Australia, 2003
- 4th IWFC — Seville, Spain, 2007
- 5th IWFC — Sun City, South Africa, 2011
- 6th IWFC — Pyeongchang, South Korea, 2015
- 7th IWFC — Campo Grande, Brazil, 2019
- 8th IWFC — Porto, Portugal, 2023
For those particularly interested in the history of this conference a detailed review of it impacts was presented at the 2019 conference in Brazil.
9th International Wildland Fire Conference
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