Working Group Reports 2025

During 2025, four interdisciplinary working groups met to lay the groundwork for the Wildfire Commons around four different focuses: a community marketplace, assessing opportunities to extend and apply the Wildfire Commons towards critical innovation gaps, demonstrating and deepening the Wildfire Commons towards real-world value through innovation, and using community standards for the Wildfire Commons. Each group—comprising researchers, practitioners, industry professionals, and community leaders—tackled a distinct challenge essential to building out the Wildfire Commons to meet community needs. The Wildfire Commons is excited to release these reports for public review and comment. 

  • The Community Marketplace Working Group envisioned a vibrant experience for discovering and deploying community-contributed tools and workflows. By examining successful platforms like HuggingFace and AWS Data Exchange, the group developed frameworks for badging, reviewing, and promoting catalog listings that help practitioners quickly identify validated, field-ready solutions. Read the Community Marketplace Working Group Report 2025.
  • The Opportunity Assessment Working Group explored innovation gaps across the wildfire management landscape. Their work identifies where the Commons can have maximum impact—from unifying fragmented expertise across disciplines to designing targeted hackathons, data challenges, and pathfinder projects that translate research into operational practice. Read the Opportunity Assessment Working Group Report 2025.
  • The Scale & Sustain Working Group addressed the dual challenge of demonstrating real-world value while building pathways for long-term growth. Their recommendations focus on strategic partnerships that support innovations from early-stage collaboration through maturation and deployment. Read the Scale & Sustain Working Group Report 2025.
  • The Standards Working Group established the technical foundation for interoperability and reproducibility. By developing metadata schemas, controlled vocabularies, and badge systems, this group ensures that data, models, and tools can be seamlessly discovered, integrated, and reused across the diverse wildfire research community. Read the Standards Working Group Report 2025.

If you have feedback for any of these reports, you can leave comments on each report via the links below. We ask that comments meet our Community Code of Conduct when providing any feedback.

If you have questions, please reach out to us at info@wildfirecommons.org.