This product is the State-wide mapping of the Bushfire Hazard Area (Bushfire Prone Area) developed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in conjunction with the Queensland Fire Department. The Bushfire Hazard Area (Bushfire Prone Area) is provided as a separate shapefile for different regions of Queensland. Please email directly for a copy of this data. (QFES was renamed QFD 01/07/2024)

New State-wide mapping methodology developed to identify Bushfire Prone Area in support of bushfire hazard provisions of Queensland's State Planning Policy, which came into effect on 2 December 2013. (QFES was renamed QFD 01/07/2024)

This product is the State-wide mapping of the Bushfire Hazard Area (Bushfire Prone Area) developed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in conjunction with the Queensland Fire and Emergency Service (QFES).The Bushfire Hazard Area (Bushfire Prone Area) is provided as a separate shapefile for different regions of Queensland. Lineage: State-wide Bushfire Prone Area Mapping is produced by combining maps of potential fire weather severity, slope and potential fuel load to determine the potential fire-line intensity of a bushfire. The final Bushfire Prone Area map is generated from potential fire-line intensity mapping by removing areas that do not meet a minimum potential fire-line intensity threshold, removing small and disconnected patches of vegetation that are less likely to be ignited or would not sustain a severe bushfire, adding a potential impact buffer, smoothing map data to replicate naturally occurring boundaries and designating a hazard class at intensity thresholds.

"The High Bushfire Hazard Area Buffer and Medium Bushfire Hazard Area Buffer layers form part of the Bushfire Hazard Overlay Maps for the Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme 2014.

This layer is for the purpose of the Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme 2014 only. Please contact Council on 5475 7526 or email mail@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au for more information on the Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme 2014.

Notes on Bushfire Hazard Overlay Maps ─ * Overlays provide a trigger for consideration of an overlay issue to be verified by further on-site investigations. * In certain circumstances pre-existing development approvals may override the operation of an overlay."

The dataset represents the extent and severity of wildfires on selected protected areas of Queensland during the 2019-2020 fire season. These selected areas are Lamington National Park, Main Range fire complex (Main Range National Park, Swanfels State Forest, Spicers Gap Road Conservation Park and Glen Rock State Forest), Mount Barney National Park, Bulburin National Park, Oakview fire complex (Oakview National Park, Oakview State Forest and Wratten National Park), Noosa National Park, Great Sandy fire complex (Great Sandy National Park/Cooloola Recreation Area, Cooroibah Conservation Park, Cooloola (Noosa River) Resource Reserve, Great Sandy Resource Reserve and Toolara State Forest).

This product is the vector (unsmoothed) version of State-wide mapping of the Vegetation Hazard Class (VHC). The VHC is an input to the State-wide Bushfire Hazard Area (Bushfire Prone Area) mapping (July 2014) prepared by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in conjunction with the Queensland Fire and Emergency Service (QFES). The VHC can also be used to support localised or site level assessments of the Bushfire Hazard Area (Bushfire Prone Area). The Vegetation Hazard Class is provided as a separate shapefile for different regions of Queensland. Please email data contact directly for a copy of this data.

History of planned burns and wildfires on and around the Protected Areas and Forests of Queensland..