“Coproduction” as a transformative model for fire science application is receiving increasing attention as wildland fire managers face increasingly complex contexts for prescribed fire applications and wildfire suppression (Hiers 2017). Among natural resource disciplines, fire management was featured heavily in a recent call for the development of translational ecology as a means to facilitate coproduction and boundary spanning in complex future conservation contexts (Enquist et al. 2017). While increasing examples of the need for coproduction are emerging from local partnerships, organizations, and research (Beier et al. 2017), as yet there is no business model for how research funding agencies can overcome the significant barriers to coproduction embodied in the disparate incentives andreward structures between researchers and managers (Safford et al. 2017). In fire science, the problems between increasingly deep disciplinary research results and a management community skeptical of science built without experience are acute. Recent examples of coproduction that have been funded or tied to projects of JFSP include RxCADRE, the regional Fire Science Exchanges, the Prescribed Fire Science Consortium, and several individual JFSP projects.To further investigate the coproduction model for wildland fire science, we conducteda focused workshop thatassessedorganizational models tohelp funding agencies achieve meaningful coproduction of wildland fire science and technology. We convenedkey managers and researchers in Salt Lake City, Utah with a series of presentations from organizations and leaders in the field of coproduction. This workshop included representatives from across R&D (US Geological Survey, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Southwest, Rocky Mountain, and Norther Forest Service Research Stations), multiple universities, members of the Fire Science Exchange Network, land managers from federal and state agencies, and funders. Panelists presented alternative business models focused on addressing coproduction needs regarding: 1) identifying barriers for fire manager and research participation; 2) developing funding incentive structures for co-production; 3) translating management needs into actionable science outputs; and 4) practical constraints of scale for co-production efforts. In additionto the workshop, we held twoPrescribed FireScience Consortium events as case studiesin coproduction. One was held in conjunction with the Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE) in central Utah. The other was a virtual Prescribed Fire Science workshop focused on the New Jersey pine barrens.