 The mission of the Institution is encourage and improve the science and practice of fire extinction, fire prevention and fire engineering and all operations and expedients connected therewith, and to give an impulse to ideas likely to be useful in connection with or in relation to such science and practice to the members of the Institution and to the community at large.The IFE has c. 10,000 members with 19 UK branches and 22 International branches.The IFE has been a licensed member of the Engineering Council since 2007 and can register those members that meet the necessary criteria as Chartered Engineers (CEng), Incorporated Engineers (IEng) or Engineering Technicians (EngTech).Number of professionally registered members in 2011 were;
• 173 EngTech
• 32 IEng
• 238 CEng

The Institution also manages a Register of Fire Risk Assessors and Auditors.