Beneficial Fire Summit

December 7th through 11th, 2026

Mission Bay, San Diego, California

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This event aims to bring practitioners, researchers, community members, Tribes, agencies, NGOs, PBAs, and everyone else together to celebrate all of our recent progress, share insights and ideas, and put our heads together about what the next phase of this work might look like, not only here in California, but across the West. This won't be a typical conference—we hope to create an engaging, productive space, with workshops, field tours, focused sessions, and lots of time for networking and connection.

This event is a collaboration with the Association for Fire Ecology, UC ANR Fire Network, California Fire Science Consortium, Northern California Prescribed Fire Council, Tall Timbers Research Station, and University of Nevada Extension/Living With Fire.