The 15th IAFSS
Symposium
The International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) is delighted to announce that the 15th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science will be held between June 8 – 12, 2026 in La Rochelle, France.
The IAFSS Symposium has been organized triennially since 1985 and has become the premier fire safety science meeting attracting researchers, students, and practicing fire protection engineers from across the globe.
The five-day event will feature invited lectures from world-leading fire science researchers, parallel presentations of peer-reviewed papers, work-in-progress poster sessions, and an image session showcasing fire research.
In addition to the technical sessions, social activities are planned to provide meeting and networking opportunities for colleagues at different career stages in informal settings.
During the two days prior to the symposium, a series of workshops will be organized, targeting a range of important topics in fire safety science and fire protection engineering.
- Ignition, flame structure, and spread (including pool fires and flame heat transfer)
- Solid pyrolysis and smolderin
- Material flammability (including flame retardant materials, flammability testing, fire emissions and their toxicity)
- Enclosure fire dynamics (including compartment, building, facade, tunnel fires, and smoke transport)
- Large outdoor fires (wildland, wildland-urban interface fires,and urban conflagrations)
- Fires in energy systems and industrial installations (including electrical vehicles, hydrogen, photovoltaics, wind turbines, manufacturing and storage facilities)
- Fire detection and suppression
- Structure-fire interactions (mechanical response to fires of steel, concrete, timber or composite structures)
- Evacuation, human behavior, and societal impact of fire
- Fire risk assessment, performance-based design, and fireforensics
June 8 –12, 2026
La Rochelle, FR
What's Next for IAFSS 2026?
Discover the latest advancements and breakthroughs in fire safety science at the IAFSS 2026 Symposium. Engage with experts and peers to explore cutting-edge research and innovative solutions shaping the future of the field.
Exhibition
Showcase your company at IAFSS 2026. You are a startup, a SME, a large corporation... You want to exhibit new products, new technologies, new researches...
Call for papers
The call for papers will be open soon. Manuscripts must be original work and must not have been submitted to another forum.
Agenda
September 24, 2025 : Submission deadline for full papers — November 14, 2025 : Reviews and requests for rebuttal are sent to authors. See more : click on the link below
Conference venue
IAFSS 2026 will be held in Espace Encan. Quai Louis Prunier - 17033, La Rochelle. La Rochelle, “Gateway to the Ocean”, with its remarkable heritage and natural setting, ranks 5th among France’s most-visited cities...