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🔥 Join the NERO Network Café on Oct 17 (9am MDT / 5pm CET)!
Explore how science and operations connect in 🇨🇦 wildfire management — from exposure modelling to field response.

🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/mpjryaj4
#Wildfire #NEROProject #FireScience
October 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
🔥 #XFIRE2025 is wrapped up!
Three days of active discussions, knowledge exchange, and networking are behind us. We return home with new insights, ideas, and friendships that will continue beyond Nicosia.
Thank you to all participants, speakers, and organizers who made this workshop a success! 🙏
September 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🔥 The wait is almost over!
#XFIRE2025 kicks off next week in Nicosia.
✅ Final programme now online – 3 keynotes, 4 invited talks, 4 sessions.
🔗 nero-network.eu/wp-content/u...
#Wildfires #ExtremeEvents #NERO
September 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🤝 Beyond science!
On 24 September, #XFire2025 hosts a Stakeholder Roundtable with reflections on policy, practice, and resilience in the face of extreme #wildfire events.
An opportunity to bridge research and real-world action.
September 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
🔥 Keynote at #XFIRE2025! We are delighted to welcome Dr. Mario Miguel Valero at the 1st International Workshop on Extreme Wildfire Events with his keynote talk: 🗣️ “The need to measure #extreme #fire behavior: #RemoteSensing advances, challenges and opportunities” 📅 25 Sept | 📍 Nicosia, Cyprus.
September 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🚨 Keynote Spotlight!
🔥 Prof. Domingos X. Viegas will deliver a keynote:
👉 “Oscillatory fire behavior in wildfire propagation”
A world-leading researcher on extreme wildfire dynamics, Prof. Viegas will share unique insights into fire spread mechanisms.

#WildfireResearch #ExtremeEvents #XFIRE2025
September 8, 2025 at 6:45 AM
🚨 Keynote Spotlight!
Dr. Francesca Di Giuseppe from ECMWF will address:
👉 “The promised revolution of ML to anticipate extreme fire behavior: Hype or reality?”
Don’t miss this opening highlight at X-Fire 2025 on 23 September in Nicosia.
#WildfireScience #MachineLearning #XFIRE2025
September 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
📢🔥 Programme Announcement – #XFire2025
We are pleased to share the programme of the 1st International Workshop on Extreme Wildfire Events (X-Fire)!
📅 23–25 September 2025
📍 Nicosia, Cyprus
#ExtremeWildfire #Wildfire
September 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🔥 The 1st International Workshop on Extreme Wildfire Events (#XFire2025) is almost here!
Organized under #NERONetwork this 3-day event will gather leading experts to explore the modeling, observation, drivers, and management of #extremewildfire events.
Stay tuned -more highlights are coming soon!
August 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
🔥 STSM Spotlight: Advancing Fire Response at ANEPC 🔥
Irene González i Fernández and Paula Sanchez Gayet recently completed a #STSM at Portugal’s Autoridade Nacional de Emergência e Proteção Civil ( ANEPC).
Check out some snapshots of their work and time at ANEPC! 📸
July 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM
🔥 Türkiye is facing an exceptionally severe wildfire season.
From the Gevye fire — now documented in our latest report — to a recent tragic event with reported casualties, extreme fire behavior is becoming more frequent.

We stand with affected communities.
#ExtremeWildfire #Wildfire #NERO #COST
July 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
🌍 #STSM in Action: Dr. Francesco Bartoli in Valencia 🇮🇹➡️🇪🇸
Our colleague from D.R.E.Am. Italia is currently on an #STSM with VAERSA’s Forest Fire Prevention Unit in the Valencian Community focusing on:
🔥 Fire weather bulletin analysis
🛰️ High-res data & fuel dynamics
🗺️ Live fuel condition mapping
July 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🔥 New deliverable out now! 🔥
#FireBehavior #STSM reports are compiled in one place with results of STSMs conducted in #Portugal 2024
Covering major fires:
🔥 Alcabideche (Cascais)
🔥 Vimioso (Bragança)
🔥 Soutelo (Bragança)
🔥 Freixo de Espada à Cinta
🔥 Padrão (Castelo Branco)

#NERO #COST
NERO – CA22164 – Fire Behavior Analysis Reports | Short Term Scientific Missions held at the National Authority of Emergency and Civil Protection (Portugal, 2024)
In 2024, NERO supported and promoted several Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) aimed at enhancing real-time wildfire analysis capabilities. These missions were conducted during the active fire se...
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July 8, 2025 at 5:38 AM
🔥 NERO Fire Brief – İzmir, Çeşme 🇹🇷

2 July 2025: A fast-moving #wildfire near Ildır village spread rapidly in strong winds & dry maquis shrubland.

🌿 ~9,000 ha burned, #spotting & #fast_spread forced village evacuations & highway closures.

#Wildfire #Türkiye #NERO #ExtremeFire #COST
NERO Fire Brief: İzmir, Çeşme Wildfire – Türkiye, July 2025 – NERO
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July 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🔥 NERO Fire Brief – İzmir, Orhanlı 🇹🇷
29 June 2025: Two #wildfires broke out near Orhanlı and came close to merging - but didn’t.
👉 Merging fire fronts can create #extreme, unpredictable fire behavior.
Even without merging, these fires showed #ExtremeWildfire traits: rapid spread & spotting
July 2, 2025 at 6:08 AM
🔥 NERO Fire Brief – Sakarya, Taraklı 🇹🇷
Nearly 150 wildfires hit Türkiye in June 2025. The Taraklı fire showed #ExtremeWildfire behavior: ~37 ha burned in 1.5 hrs, pyroconvection & wind-driven spread.
📄 Read more in our Fire Brief
#Wildfire #Türkiye #NERO #COST
June 30, 2025 at 5:23 AM
🔥 We published NERO Fire Brief – Pisak-Mimice, Croatia 🇭🇷
On June 21, 2025, a wind-driven wildfire burned ~300 ha across Pisak, Marušići & Mimice.
🌬️ Gusts: 22 m/s
🔥 Rapid spread, spotting, extreme behavior

#Wildfire #Croatia #NERO #ExtremeWildfire #COST
June 24, 2025 at 5:59 AM
🔥 Submissions for #XFire2025 are now closed!
We received a fantastic number of high-quality abstracts — thank you! 🙌
The review process is now underway. Please be patient as we evaluate all contributions.
Stay tuned for updates!
#WildfireResearch #COST #NERO
June 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
📢 Check out this opportunity!

A new training event on Extreme Weather Events is coming up – organized by @ewedproject.bsky.social
and open to interested participants.
📢 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 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🇦🇺 How does Australia fight wildfires with science?
Join us on for the next NERO Café webinar and learn from 🎙 Top experts!
🗓 Date: Tuesday, 10 June 2025
🕙 Time: 10:00 CET / 18:00 AEST
📍 Platform: Microsoft Teams

#wildfire #firescience #COST #NEROCafe
June 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🚨 Meet Irene González i Fernández, a PhD student at
@UABBarcelona
working on faster, smarter wildfire simulations! Her research makes fire models more accurate & efficient.
#WildfireScience #NERO #PhDResearch #FireModeling #YRI 🔥🧠
June 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🔥 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 6:37 AM
🔥 STSM season has started!
@ljiser.bsky.social visited the National Observatory of Athens to work with the NOA team on fire behavior analysis from video footage.
This collaboration paves the way for new tools in wildfire research.

#STSM #Wildfires #ScienceCollab
May 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🔥 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 5:29 AM
Today we honour St. Florian, patron saint of firefighters. 🔥🚒

At NERO, we stand with those on the front lines of extreme fire events. Your courage drives our mission to understand and mitigate extreme fire behavior.

Thank you. 🙏
#StFlorian #FirefightersDay #ExtremeFire #NERO #WildfireScience
May 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM