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Extreme Wildfire Events Data Hub for Improved Decision Making | UCPM-2023-KAPP

Web: https://civil-protection-knowledge-network.europa.eu/projects/ewed
#EWED is giving the final touches to the upcoming #WildfireDataPortal. 🔥💻
Did you know? 🌍 It brings together field data from wildfires, Extreme Wildfire Events #EWEs and prescribed fires in Spain, Greece, the Netherlands and Chile.
Launching soon! 🔥 Stay tuned!
November 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Last week, #EWED celebrated its Training Event & Hackathon #TEHackathon in 📍 Wageningen, organised by @w-u-r.bsky.social and @nipv.nl
Find out what it was about here: civil-protection-knowledge-network.europa.eu/news/ewed-un...
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Hurry up, registation ends on Sunday! 🏃‍♀️
🔈Are 🫵 involved in wildfire management in Denmark, Norway, Sweden or Finland? Then, take note of our 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 🖥🔥👇
✍ Register by 26 October
ℹ and registration form: bit.ly/45gMVZR
October 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Final day of the #EWED Training Event & #TEHackathon! 👏🔥
We explored EWED’s philosophy, the in-development #WildfireDataPortal and #CLASS model, and ran a real-time #EWE crisis simulation.
Huge thanks to our colleagues from @w-u-r.bsky.social, @esciencecenter.bsky.social, #bomberscat and @nipv.nl! 🙌
October 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Day 2️⃣ of the #EWED Training Event & #TEHackathon wrapped up!
We looked at conceptual fire plumes, uncertainty in wildfire operations & fire analysis via the polygon method.
Thanks to Martin Janssens (@w-u-r.bsky.social) and Marc Castellnou ( #bomberscat )! 🙌
October 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Day 1️⃣ of the #EWED Training Event & #TEHackathon done!
We’ve explored the #AtmosphericBoundaryLayer — key to understanding extreme fire behaviour.
Thanks to facilitators chiel1982.bsky.social and Jordi Vilà, and to André van Lammeren for the warm welcome - all from @w-u-r.bsky.social 🙌
October 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Starting the countdown for the #EWED 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 & 𝗛𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 (#TEHackathon) taking place in 📍 Wageningen next week! 🤩
Excited to meet all the colleagues joining us from 10 different countries. 🙌
Safe travels, and see you next week! ✈️🌍
📢 Open training alert!
📌 Theoretical and practical sessions on #EWEs, free of charge. Coffee breaks and lunches during the teaching day, included.
📌 Places limited!
🚨 Register by 4 July
All the ℹ, including the registration form: civil-protection-knowledge-network.europa.eu/events/ewed-...
October 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🔈Are 🫵 involved in wildfire management in Denmark, Norway, Sweden or Finland? Then, take note of our 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 🖥🔥👇
✍ Register by 26 October
ℹ and registration form: bit.ly/45gMVZR
October 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
We collect atmospheric and fire data with radiosondes 🎈 (1st photo), and with these, we:
👉Generate 3D wildfire simulations (2nd photo)
👉Run #CLASS models (3rd photo) to explore the weather conditions driving wildfires.
Learn about them with our deliverables 4.1 and 4.2, here: bit.ly/47UeQhz
October 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🔈 Last day at #XFIRE2025!
🗣 Ove Stokkeland from the #Grenland Fire and Rescue Service has presented the #EWED Wildfire Data Portal-coming soon!
Thanks to @neronetwork.bsky.social for the opportunity to share EWED knowledge and resources with colleagues interested in #ExtremeWildfireEvents 🙌
September 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
📣We are at #XFIRE2025!
👉Organised by @neronetwork.bsky.social
🗣️Today, Zisoula Ntasiou (#HellenicFireService) has talked about pyroconvection analysis and data gathering from extreme wildfire events.
Are you there? Take note of our next presentation - Thur, 11:45 -and come talk to us at any time!
September 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
📣 Check out the latest #EWED article, ‘Science and practice: Why collaboration is key in Extreme Wildfire Events’
👉 By Brian Verhoeven ( #NIPV ) 🙌
🔗 civil-protection-knowledge-network.europa.eu/news/science...
September 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
📢 New resources now available!
1️⃣ D4.1 Simulation setup
🎯 To generate 3D wildfire simulations under conditions resembling those observed in the field, by using the #MicroHH code 🖥🔥
🔗 bit.ly/3JurHAy
August 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Reposted by EWED
We are collecting records of fire behaviour in the UK!

Do you have fire behaviour observations (recent or historical) for a specific location, date and time? We welcome you to fill in this survey to help us to validate and improve FireInSite fire behaviour predictions.

Survey link: arcg.is/CyqWj2
July 31, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Do you want to learn...
📌about the interaction between the atmosphere and fire during Extreme Wildfire Events #EWEs?
📌 to use the Wildfire Data Portal #EWED is developing, to better understand EWEs and improve decision-making at emergencies?
Then, our free Training Event & Hackathon is for you! 👇
📢 Open training alert!
📌 Theoretical and practical sessions on #EWEs, free of charge. Coffee breaks and lunches during the teaching day, included.
📌 Places limited!
🚨 Register by 4 July
All the ℹ, including the registration form: civil-protection-knowledge-network.europa.eu/events/ewed-...
June 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Why should Northern Europe prepare for severe wildfires?

Ove Stokkeland, from the Grenland Fire and Rescue Service in 📍 Norway, gives his point of view in this article 🔗👇

civil-protection-knowledge-network.europa.eu/news/why-nor...
June 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Places are filling up! Have you registered yet for the #EWED Training Event & Hackathon #TEHackathon? 👇
⚠️ Deadline: 4 July
📢 Open training alert!
📌 Theoretical and practical sessions on #EWEs, free of charge. Coffee breaks and lunches during the teaching day, included.
📌 Places limited!
🚨 Register by 4 July
All the ℹ, including the registration form: civil-protection-knowledge-network.europa.eu/events/ewed-...
June 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
📢 Open training alert!
📌 Theoretical and practical sessions on #EWEs, free of charge. Coffee breaks and lunches during the teaching day, included.
📌 Places limited!
🚨 Register by 4 July
All the ℹ, including the registration form: civil-protection-knowledge-network.europa.eu/events/ewed-...
June 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
📢Event alert! 👇
🔥 Missed the deadline? You’re in luck!
X-Fire 2025 abstract submission is extended to 10 June!
📍 Nicosia, Cyprus | 23–25 Sept
📝 Extended abstracts (up to 4 pages)
💸 No registration fee
✈️ Travel support for eligible #NERO members
#XFire2025 #COST
May 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
📢 New #EWED resource available: 𝗗𝟯.𝟮 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀!
Consisting of:
1️⃣ The report 📄
2️⃣ The dataset comprising data from ten forest fires and two prescribed burns. 💻🔥
Access D3.2 here:
zenodo.org/records/1544...
May 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
📢 We will be at the 3rd Wildfire Risk Management Clustering Event by #Firelogue. If you want to know about our work to better understand Extreme Wildfire Events #EWEs, come to see our poster in the Exhibition space and ask us any questions!
📣 Excited to be participating in the 3rd Wildfire Risk Management Clustering Event by #Firelogue in 📍 Brussels, tomorrow and on Wednesday.
The goal of this event 🎯 is to introduce a proposal for an integrated wildfire risk management strategy for Europe.
More ℹ: firelogue.eu/cluster-even...
May 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
📣Wildfire researchers and practitioners, please give @neronetwork.bsky.social a hand by participating in this survey! 👇
🔥 Wildfire researchers & practitioners!
We're supporting research on technology use in wildfire management. Take this anonymous survey to help identify practices, gaps & needs.

#WildfireManagement #FireEcology #ExtremeWildfires #NERO
May 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Reposted by EWED
🚨 Call for Abstracts is OPEN!
Join us at X-Fire 2025 – the 1st Intl. Workshop on Extreme Wildfire Events, organized by #COST Action #NERO (CA22164).
📍 Nicosia, Cyprus
📅 23–25 Sept 2025
🗓️ Submit by 30 May #extremefires #firescience
April 16, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Last week partner #HFS participated in the panel 'Global Support in the New Era - With Fire Seasons Becoming All Year Round, is a New Approach Needed?', at #AFFE2025. A great experience sharing it with members from @ec.europa.eu, @wadnr.bsky.social, @calfire.bsky.social and @lacofd.bsky.social 🙌
March 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Why are empirical data important in wildfire management? The Catalan Fire and Rescue Service explains why and what type of data are important in a new article on our website.
🗣️"Data should serve to reduce uncertainty"
🔗 bit.ly/4kUYRrj
March 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM