Abstract The National Bushfire Historical Extents Dataset (version 3.0) represents the aggregation of jurisdictional supplied burnt areas polygons (except Northern Territory) that date from the late 1800's through to 2024. The burnt areas represent curated jurisdictional owned polygons of both bushfires and prescribed (planned) burns. This dataset was produced under Work Stream 1C - Activity 3 of the National Bushfire Intelligence Capability; a collaborative partnership between the Australian Climate Services, CSIRO (NBIC), Geoscience Australia (GA), and the Emergency Management Spatial Information Network (EMSINA). Under agreement this Project (Activity 3) will release a nationally consistent, harmonised and standardised historical bushfire extent dataset derived from the authoritative state and territory agencies. The information released within this dataset is reflective of the data supplied by participating authoritative agencies. It may, or may not, represent all fire history within that jurisdiction. Apart from small updates to this dataset up until 30 June 2025 there are no plans for another major update to this Product. Currency Date modified: November 2024 Next modification date: June 2025 Data Extent Spatial extent North: -9° South: -44° East: 154° West: 112° Temporal extent 30 December 1899 to 29 August 2024 Source information Catalog entry: Bushfire Boundaries – Historical Lineage Statement Date created: 24 October 2024 Version 3 of this dataset extends upon the previous versions of this dataset built and released under the Australia Research Data Commons Project in early 2023 and National Bushfire Intelligence Capability in October 2023. This dataset represents an updated aggregation of each jurisdiction (except the Northern Territo ry) fire history data to include information from the 2023-24 bushfire season. Sources of State and Territory Data are: - Australian Capital Territory Parks and Conservation - New South Wales Parks and Wildlife Service - New South Wales Rural Fire Service - Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service - South Australia Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources - Tasmania Department of Natural Resources and Environment - Victorian Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action - Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions

Please note that some of the above are responsible for the collection and distribution of multiple Agencies data. These agencies are identified at the attribute level.

Northern Territory Data: The Northern Territory Government continue to progress in the development of their Bushfire Extent capabilities. Work is well underway with the relevant agency’s to be able to incorporate NT Government approved Historical Bushfire Extent data in the near future. Product standardisation: The data provided by each jurisdiction is standardised and harmonised. This process maps the existing state/territory attributes to the National Data Schema that was agreed to and endorsed by the participating state agencies and the Australian Fire and Emergency Services Authorities Council. The Digital Atlas of Australia data team published an optimised Bushfire Historic Extents dataset designed to perform efficiently in either a desktop application or a web service. Data dictionary All layers

Attribute name Description

fire_id ID attached to fire (e.g. incident ID, Event ID, Burn ID).

fire_name Incident name. If available.

fire_type Binary variable to describe whether a fire was a bushfire or prescribed burn.

ignition_date The date of the ignition of a fire event. Date and time are local time zone from the State where the fire is located and stored as a string.

capture_date The date of the incident boundary was captured or updated. Date and time are local time zone from the Jurisdiction where the fire is located and stored as a string.

extinguish_date The date a fire is declared safe (contained and under control). If available.

capt_method Categorical variable to describe the source of data used for defining the spatial extent of the fire.

area_ha Burnt area in Hectares. Currently calculated field so that all areas calculations are done in the same map projection. Jurisdiction supply area in appropriate projection to match state incident reporting system.

perim_km Burnt perimeter in Kilometres. Calculated field so that all areas calculations are done in the same map projection. Jurisdiction preference is that supplied perimeter calculations are used for consistency with jurisdictional reporting.

state State custodian of the data. NOTE: Currently some states use and have in their feeds cross border data

agency Agency that is responsible for the incident

Fire Type definitions

Data Source Category Description

Bushfire Unplanned vegetation fire. A generic term which includes grass fires, forest fires and scrub fires both with and without a suppression objective. Also known as wildfire, accident, arson, lightning.

Prescribed Burn The controlled application of fire under specified environmental conditions to a predetermined area and at the time, intensity, and rate of spread required to attain planned resource management objectives. Also known as planned burning, fuel reduction, traditional owner, ecological, hazard reduction

Unknown Fire type is undetermined.

Ignition Cause definitions

Data Source Category Description

Accidental Fires that are not the result of a deliberate (intentional) act.

Natural Fires that ignite without human intervention.

Incendiary Fires result from deliberate acts, intentional actions, or circumstances for the fire to occur in areas where it should not have occurred.

Undetermined Fires that have not yet been investigated, under investigation or fires that have been investigated and the cause is not proven to an acceptable level of certainty.

Capture Method definitions

Data Source Category Description

Aerial photography Derived from Aerial photography including manual interpretation as well as partially automated and fully automated methods.

Linescanner Mapped against airborne sensor systems.

Ground intelligence Mud map from ground observation.

Ground intelligence GPS Fire boundary derived from ground (e.g. GPS tracker, Avenza).

Air intelligence Mud map from air observation.

Air intelligence GPS Fire boundary derived from air (e.g. helicopter, spotter).

Himawari Derived from geostationary satellite Himawari and includes manual interpretation as well as partially automated and fully automated methods (spatial accuracy ± 2 kilometres).

NOAA AVHRR Derived from Low Resolution - NOAA AVHRR satellite including manual interpretation, partially automated and fully automated methods (spatial accuracy ± 1 kilometres).

MODIS Derived from Low Resolution - MODIS satellite imagery including manual interpretation as well as partially automated and fully automated methods (spatial accuracy ± 250 metres).

VIIRS Derived from Low Resolution - VIIRS satellite imagery including manual interpretation as well as partially automated and fully automated methods (spatial accuracy ± 375 metres).

Landsat Derived from Medium Resolution - Landsat satellite imagery including manual interpretation as well as partially automated and fully automated methods (spatial accuracy ± 30 metres).

Sentinel Derived from Medium Resolution - Sentinel satellite imagery including manual interpretation as well as partially automated and fully automated methods (spatial accuracy ± 10 - 20 metres).

Multiple Derived from multiple sources e.g. combination of ground intel and linescanner. For detailed information contact agency or state responsible.

Unknown Data Source is unknown.

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The National Indicative Aggregated Fire Extent Dataset has been developed rapidly to support the immediate needs of the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW, previously DAWE) in:quantifying the potential impacts of the 2019/20 bushfires on wildlife, plants and ecological communities; and,identifying appropriate response and recovery actions.The intent was to derive a reliable, agreed, fit for purpose and repeatable national dataset of burnt areas across Australia for the 2019/20 bushfire season.The NIAFED was first published on 13 February 2020 and was updated several times during 2020 to reflect updates to fire extent datasets from state and territory agencies. Most changes across these versions, after February (end of summer), reflect refinements on previous extent mapping, rather than new burnt areas. Fire analyses and decision making within the department after June 2020 has been based on the GEEBAM dataset. The GEEBAM dataset reports on fire severity within the NIAFED v20200225 extent envelope and includes some areas determined to be unburnt within NIAFED areas.NOTE: previous versions of this dataset are available on request to geospatial@dcceew.gov.auThe dataset takes the national Emergency Management Spatial Information Network Australia (EMSINA) data service, which is the official fire extent currently used by the Commonwealth and adds supplementary data from other sources to form a cumulative national view of fire extent. This EMSINA data service shows the current active fire incidents, and the Department map shows the total fire extent from 1 July 2019 to the 22 June 2020.EMSINA have been instrumental in providing advice on access to data and where to make contact in the early stages of developing the National Indicative Aggregated Fire Extent Dataset.This dataset is released on behalf of the Commonwealth Government and endorsed by the National Burnt Area Dataset Working Group, convened by the National Bushfire Recovery Agency.Known Issues:The dataset has a number of known issues, both in its conceptual design and in the quality of its inputs. These are outlined below and should be taken into account in interpreting the data and developing any derived analyses.The list of known issues below is not comprehensive: it is anticipated that further issues will be identified in the future, and the Department welcomes feedback on this. We will seek as far as possible to continuously improve the dataset in future versions.In addition, the 2019/20 bushfire season is ongoing and it can be expected that the fire extent will increase.Future versions of the dataset will therefore document and distinguish between changes arising from methodological improvement, as distinct from changes to the actual fire extent.The dataset draws data together from multiple different sources, including from state and territory agencies responsible for emergency and natural resource management, and from the Northern Australian Fire Information website. The variety of mapping methods means that conceptually the dataset lacks national coherency. The limitations associated with the input datasets are carried through to this dataset. Users are advised to refer to the input datasets’ documentation to better understand limitations.The dataset is intentionally precautionary and the rulesets for its creation elect to accept the risk of overstating the size of particular burnt areas. If and when there are overlapping polygons for an area, the internal boundaries have been dissolved.The dataset shows only the outline of burnt areas and lacks information on fire severity in these areas, which may often include areas within them that are completely unburnt. For the intended purpose this may limit the usability of the data, particularly informing on local environmental impacts and response. This issue will be given priority, either for future versions of the dataset or for development of a separate, but related, fire severity product.This continental dataset includes large burnt areas, particularly in northern Australia, which can be considered part of the natural landscape dynamics. For the intended purpose of informing on fire of potential environmental impact, some interpretation and filtering may be required. There are a variety of ways to do this, including by limiting the analysis to southern Australia, as was done for recent Wildlife and Threatened Species Bushfire Recovery Expert Panel’s preliminary analysis of 13 January 2020. For that preliminary analysis area, boundaries from the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia version 7 were used by the Department to delineate an area of southern Australia encompassing the emergency bushfire areas of the southern summer. The Department will work in consultation with the expert panel and other relevant bodies in the future on alternative approaches to defining, spatially or otherwise, fire of potential environmental impact.The dataset cannot be used to reliably recreate what the national burnt area extent was at a given date prior to the date of release. Reasons for this include that information on the date/time on individual fires may or may not have been provided in the input datasets, and then lost as part of the dissolve process discussed in issue 2 above.With fires still burning extents are not yet refined.Fire extents are downloaded daily, and datasets are aggregated. This results in an overlap of polygon extents and raises the issue that refined extents are disregarded at this early stage.The Northern Australian Fire Information (NAFI) dataset is only current to 19 June 2020.

Please note: This dataset contains records of fire events (prescribed burns and bushfire) on department managed lands, or fire events which have incurred costs borne by the department. It is not intended as a complete statewide dataset, and should not be used as such. The earliest records available are from 1937. Some historic map sheets have been unattainable and thus the dataset is missing some data. This dataset contains information from completed projects including the Great Western Woodlands (GWW), Gnangara Sustainability Strategy (GSS) and remote sensing of Pilbara fire scars. The GWW project used remote sensing and Landsat to digitise fires with hotspot data for date verification from the years 1970 - 1990. The GSS project assessed the current fire history records in the DBCA Swan district by verifying fires and attribution from fire records, annual fire reports, historic maps, microfiche and Fire Support System extracts. A Pilbara regional request for more accurate fire shapes and higher resolution imagery used remote sensing and Landsat to capture the years from 1999 - 2011. The dataset also includes areas of clear-felled plantation and mining rehabilitation. This data set will generally be updated twice a year - around January and July. For further information please contact the data custodian.

The 2019/2020 bushfire season was one of the most devasting to occur in Australia. Between October 2019 and February 2020, almost 13 million hectares of land were burned in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. The last fires were extinguished in February 2020, however the damage was extensive across the country.

Flora and fauna

Across the entire country, the largest area of land burned was conservation land. The Blue Mountains and the Gondwana world heritage sites suffered widespread damage. Many threatened species were affected by the bush fires. Furthermore, an estimated 1.5 billion wildlife animals, who resided in habitats destroyed by the fires, were killed.

Property damage

As well as the loss of wildlife, the properties of many Australians were destroyed. In New South Wales alone, thousands of buildings were destroyed or damaged. Insurance claims directly in relation to bushfires across the entire country were valued at 1.9 billion Australian dollars as of January 2020. The full financial impact from these fires is yet to bet determined.

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Abstract This spatial product shows consistent ‘near real-time’ bushfire and prescribed burn boundaries for all jurisdictions who have the technical ability or appropriate licence conditions to provide this information. Currency Maintenance of the underlying data is the responsibility of the custodian. Geoscience Australia has automated methods of regularly checking for changes in source data. Once detected the dataset and feeds will be updated as soon as possible. NOTE: The update frequency of the underlying data from the jurisdictions varies and, in most cases, does not line up to this product’s update cycle. Date created: November 2023 Modification frequency: Every 15 Minutes Spatial Extent

West Bounding Longitude: 113° South Bounding Latitude: -44° East Bounding Longitude: 154° North Bounding Latitude: -10°

Source Information The project team initially identified a list of potential source data through jurisdictional websites and the Emergency Management LINK catalogue. These were then confirmed by each jurisdiction through the EMSINA National and EMSINA Developers networks. This Webservice contains authoritative data sourced from:

Australian Capital Territory - Emergency Service Agency (ESA) New South Wales - Rural Fire Service (RFS) Queensland - Queensland Fire and Emergency Service (QFES) South Australia - Country Fire Service (CFS)
Tasmania - Tasmania Fire Service (TFS)
Victoria – Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP)
Western Australia – Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES)

The completeness of the data within this webservice is reliant on each jurisdictional source and the information they elect to publish into their Operational Bushfire Boundary webservices. Known Limitations:

This dataset does not contain information from the Northern Territory government. This dataset contains a subset of the Queensland bushfire boundary data. The Queensland ‘Operational’ feed that is consumed within this National Database displays a the last six (6) months of incident boundaries. In order to make this dataset best represent a ‘near-real-time’ or current view of operational bushfire boundaries Geoscience Australia has filtered the Queensland data to only incorporate the last two (2) weeks data. Geoscience Australia is aware of duplicate data (features) may appear within this dataset. This duplicate data is commonly represented in the regions around state borders where it is operationally necessary for one jurisdiction to understand cross border situations. Care must be taken when summing the values to obtain a total area burnt. The data within this aggregated National product is a spatial representation of the input data received from the custodian agencies. Therefore, data quality and data completion will vary. If you wish to assess more information about specific jurisdictional data and/or data feature(s) it is strongly recommended that you contact the appropriate custodian.

The accuracy of the data attributes within this webservice is reliant on each jurisdictional source and the information they elect to publish into their Operational Bushfire Boundary webservices. Note: Geoscience Australia has, where possible, attempted to align the data to the (as of October 2023) draft National Current Incident Extent Feeds Data Dictionary. However, this has not been possible in all cases. Work to progress this alignment will be undertaken after the publication of this dataset, once this project enters a maintenance period. Catalog entry: Bushfire Boundaries – Near Real-Time Lineage Statement Version 1 and 2 (2019/20): This dataset was first built by EMSINA, Geoscience Australia, and Esri Australia staff in early January 2020 in response to the Black Summer Bushfires. The product was aimed at providing a nationally consistent dataset of bushfire boundaries. Version 1 was released publicly on 8 January 2020 through Esri AGOL software.
Version 2 of the product was released in mid-February as EMSINA and Geoscience Australia began automating the product. The release of version 2 exhibited a reformatted attributed table to accommodate these new automation scripts. The product was continuously developed by the three entities above until early May 2020 when both the scripts and data were handed over to the National Bushfire Recovery Agency. The EMSINA Group formally ended their technical involvement with this project on June 30, 2020. Version 3 (2020/21): A 2020/21 version of the National Operational Bushfire Boundaries dataset was agreed to by the Australian Government. It continued to extend upon EMSINA’s 2019/20 Version 2 product. This product was owned and managed by the Australian Government Department of Home Affairs, with Geoscience Australia identified as the technical partners responsible for development and delivery. Work on Version 3 began in August 2020 with delivery of this product occurring on 14 September 2020. Version 4 (2021/22): A 2021/22 version of the National Operational Bushfire Boundaries dataset was produced by Geoscience Australia. This product was owned and managed by Geoscience Australia, who provided both development and delivery. Work on Version 4 began in August 2021 with delivery of this product occurring on 1 September 2021. The dataset was discontinued in May 2022 because of insufficient Government funding. Version 5 (2023/25): A 2023/25 version of the National Near-Real-Time Bushfire Boundaries dataset is produced by Geoscience Australia under funding from the National Bushfire Intelligence Capability (NBIC) - CSIRO. NBIC and Geoscience Australia have also partnered with the EMSINA Group to assist with accessing and delivering this dataset. This dataset is the first time where the jurisdictional attributes are aligned to AFAC’s National Bushfire Schema.
Work on Version 5 began in August 2023 and was released in late 2023 under formal access arrangements with the States and Territories. Data Dictionary Geoscience Australia has not included attributes added automatically by spatial software processes in the table below.

Attribute Name Description

fire_id ID attached to fire (e.g. incident ID, Event ID, Burn ID).

fire_name Incident name. If available.

fire_type Binary variable to describe whether a fire was a bushfire or prescribed burn.

ignition_date The date of the ignition of a fire event. Date and time are local time zone from the State where the fire is located and stored as a string.

capt_date The date of the incident boundary was captured or updated. Date and time are local time zone from the Jurisdiction where the fire is located and stored as a string.

capt_method Categorical variable to describe the source of data used for defining the spatial extent of the fire.

area_ha Burnt area in Hectares. Currently calculated field so that all areas calculations are done in the same map projection. Jurisdiction supply area in appropriate projection to match state incident reporting system.

perim_km ) Burnt perimeter in Kilometres. Calculated field so that all areas calculations are done in the same map projection. Jurisdiction preference is that supplied perimeter calculations are used for consistency with jurisdictional reporting.

state State custodian of the data. NOTE: Currently some states use and have in their feeds cross border data

agency Agency that is responsible for the incident

date_retrieved The date and time that Geoscience Australia retrieved this data from the jurisdictions, stored as UTC. Please note when viewed in ArcGIS Online, the date is converted from UTC to your local time.

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Fires in Australia’s Forests 2016–21 (2024) is a continental spatial dataset of the extent and frequency of planned and unplanned fires occurring in forest in the five financial years between July 2016 and June 2021, assembled for Australia's State of the Forests Report Indicator 3.1b Area of forest burnt by planned and unplanned fire. It was developed from multiple fire area datasets contributed by state and territory government agencies, after consultation with Australia’s Forest Fire Management Group. The fire dataset is then combined with forest cover information sourced from the Forests of Australia (2023) dataset (https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/forestsaustralia/forest-data-maps-and-tools/spatial-data/forest-cover), and forest tenure information sourced from the Tenure of Australia’s Forests (2023) dataset.\r \r Planned fire: Fire started in accordance with a fire management plan or planned burning program, such as fuel-reduction burning or prescribed burning.\r \r Unplanned fire: Fire started naturally (such as by lightning), accidentally, or deliberately (such as by arson), but not in accordance with planned fire management prescriptions. Also called bushfire or wildfire.\r \r The dataset was compiled by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) for the National Forest Inventory (NFI), a collaborative partnership between the Australian and state and territory governments. The role of the NFI is to collate, integrate and communicate information on Australia's forests. The NFI applies a national classification to state and territory data to allow seamless integration of these datasets. Multiple independent sources of external data are used to fill data gaps and improve the quality of the final dataset.​\r \r Forest areas burnt by fire are allocated by the month of the fire to a financial year (July–June inclusive). Where more than one fire event occurs on any one hectare during a financial year, only the first fire is recorded for that area in the financial year. Fires are also classified into two categories, planned and unplanned, based on the fire seasonality and advice from state and territory agencies.\r \r The Fires in Australia’s forests 2016–21 (2024) dataset is produced to fulfil requirements of Australia's National Forest Policy Statement and the Regional Forests Agreement Act 2002 (Cwth), and is used by the Australian Government for domestic and international reporting.​​

The dataset provides most recent fire scar mapping for many major fires that have burnt in a given area within or adjacent to National Parks and Wildlife South Australia (NPWSA) reserves. This data …Show full descriptionThe dataset provides most recent fire scar mapping for many major fires that have burnt in a given area within or adjacent to National Parks and Wildlife South Australia (NPWSA) reserves. This data set is derived from Fire History mapping. The most recent fire mapping can be used for operational management and planning of fire events and ecological resource management.

This spatial product was built in direct response to the public's, industry's and governments demand/requirement for a National Bushfire Boundary layer during and after the 2020 Black Summer Bushfires.

Emergency Management Spatial information Network Australia (EMSINA) members (National and the Developers) begun developing this consolidated National Bushfire Boundary Webservice on December 30, 2019. With the technical assistance of Esri Australia the first public facing product (v1) became available on January 8, 2020. Geoscience Australia staff were involved in the development and maintenance of the FME scripts.

Version 2 of the product was released in February as EMSINA and Geoscience Australia began automating the product. This release exhibited a reformatted attributed table to accommodate the new automation scripts; unfortunately this release resulted in having to release the data with new access end points.

The product was continuously developed until early May 2020. On May 4, 2020 the EMSINA Committee made the decision to stop running the script i.e. 1 month after the official end of the bushfire season.

The product and the scripting were subsequently archived on both EMSINA and GA infrastructure. The National Bushfire Recovery Agency was provided a copy of the automation scripts on May 7, 2020 and then on June 26, 2020 a complete copy of the data from January 8, 2020 to May 4, 2020 in a geodatabase format.

The EMSINA Group formally ended their technical involvement with this project on June 30, 2020.

The Emergency Management LINK (EM-LINK*) catalogue was the source for identifying the majority of the required data. The consolidated National Bushfire Boundary Webservice contains data from:

 Australian Capital Territory - Emergency Service Agency (ESA)

 New South Wales - Rural Fire Service (RFS)

 Queensland - Queensland Fire and Emergency Service (QFES)

 Queensland - Queensland Department of Environment and Science (DES)

 South Australia - Country Fire Service (CFS)

 Tasmania - Tasmania Fire Service (TFS)

 Victoria - Emergency Management Victoria (EMV)

Where EMSINA and/or Geoscience Australia had difficulty in accessing the required spatial data and/or attributes assistance was provided by the National Bushfire Recovery Agency and Emergency Management Australia.

Known Limitations of the Data:

This database does not contain information from Western Australia. Neither EMSINA nor the Australian Government were able to negotiate appropriate access to the State’s operational boundary data.

EMSINA is aware of duplicate data (features) contained within this database. This duplicate data is commonly represented in the regions around state lines where it became operationally necessary to understand cross border situations. Care must be taken when summing the values to obtain a total area burnt.

EMSINA and Geoscience Australia became aware of the following error in the database in April 2020:

• Upon receipt of the Queensland data it was mistakenly assessed as Operational Boundaries and not as Historic FY Boundaries. This data was included into the database until the mistake was discovered in early April.

The data within this aggregated National product is a representation of the input data received from the custodian agencies. Therefore, to assess the quality or find out more information about an individual feature or features it is recommend that you contact the appropriate custodian.

Strategic Bushfire Management Plan - Current Bushfire Prone AreasThe BPA map is a single risk-based map that defines the area of the ACT that has been assessed as being at high risk to life and property due to bushfires. Canberra’s built-up areas that are adjacent to forest and grassland are defined as BPAs, as is the ACT’s entire rural area. Identifying the at-risk areas on the BPA map has two principal purposes: It requires assessment to determine mandatory construction standards for buildings under the Australian Standards AS 3959 – Construction of buildings in bushfire prone areas. Concurrent with the development of the SBMP, the ACT Government is considering arrangements to extend BPAs (for the purposes of AS 3959 assessments) to include part of the built-up area of CanberraIt provides the means by which people in the community can assess their personal level of risk and provide the basis for targeted The BPA map will be reviewed as required to reflect changes in land use and tenure, and will be approved by the Commissioner. IMPORTANT NOTICE: The ACT Government is providing this bushfire management map for information purposes only. This data is derived from the best available vegetation. The ACT Government cannot and does not guarantee the accuracy and completeness of any data and information contained on this site as, among other reasons, there may have been changes to land use and vegetation since the map was produced. The ACT Government disclaims liability to any person who acts in reliance on the information provided on this site or contained within the reports or plans on it whether that liability is in negligence or on any other legal basis.Persons who would otherwise seek to rely on the data and information contained on this site should make their own inquiries and seek their own expert advice. BPA is already declared over the Rural Areas of the ACT for the purposes of AS 3959 assessment.

Creative Commons License Creative Common By Attribution 4.0 (Australian Capital Territory), Please read Data Terms and Conditions statement before data use.

This map looks at the hot spot activity captured by the MODIS satellite and updated imagery from Sentenial of Australia and shows the damage of the Australian bushfire.

SA Country Fire Service (CFS) responds to a range of incidents across South Australia.
A Bushfire Safer Settlement is a place of relative safety and may be used as a place for people to stay in or as a place of first resort for those people who have decided that they will leave high risk locations early on a bad fire weather day. This precinct is considered to be relatively safe from fire due to its distance from areas with a high fuel level. Although the CFS has taken every care and precaution in identifying this area it may be subjected to spark and ember attack in the event of a fire. This KML file describes the Safer Settlement area.

Data acquisitionOccurrence data for bee species were downloaded from ALA60 using ALA4R version 1.8.064 in R version 3.6.265.Floral visitation data were obtained from ALA60, Museums Victoria, the Western Australian Museum66,67, and publications (Tables S1 and S2). Floral visitation records were checked for errors and synonymies using the Australian Plant Name Index68. Life-history traits for bee species were sourced, in most cases, from the most recent taxonomic descriptions, or other publications (Tables S1 and S2). A one-hectare resolution Major Vegetation Subgroup (MVS) map was sourced from Geoscience Australia’s National Mapping Division (NMD)61. Fire frequency data from 1988 to 2016 were downloaded from the Department of Environment and Energy (DEE)69, 2019–20 wildfire occurrence data (National Indicative Aggregated Fire Extent Dataset — NIAFED — version 20200623) were sourced from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE)36, and 2019–20 wildfire intensity data (Google Earth Engine Burnt Area Map — GEEBAM) were sourced from the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE)62. All raster data sources were matched in resolution to the one-hectare MVS map. These GIS data sources may vary in spatial uncertainty or resolution and their caveats can be found at their respective locations online.Data filtering and analysesOccurrence data from ALA were filtered to include only reliable (“preserved specimens”, “machine observations” — e.g., malaise traps, — and data from published datasets) and “present” (compared to “absent”) records. Records without geographic locations or that did not align with base maps were excluded from GIS analyses. Species were then filtered for minimum sample size (n = 30) and minimum number of unique localities (n = 5). However, if there were 15 or more unique localities and a sample size of less than 30, the species was included.The MVS map was reprojected to a world geodetic system (WGS 1984, EPSG:4326) and clipped to the 2019–20 wildfire map in QGIS version 3.1270. The NIAFED and GEEBAM maps were aligned and matched to the resolution of the MVS map using the package raster version 3.0-1271 in R version 3.6.265. Major vegetation subgroups61, 2019–20 wildfire status36, and fire frequency69 were extracted for each ALA record using raster. The proportion of each MVS burnt was calculated by clipping MVS maps with the 2019–20 burn map in ArcMap Version 10.6.172. All map files used in our analyses are available at (html location to be confirmed upon acceptance) for use with our R script.We complemented species distributional data (ALA60 point data) with spatial information on their associated habitat (MVS61), to avoid reliance on the limited data for some species. To determine the potential distribution of each species we buffered the latitudinal and longitudinal extents of the raster datasets (MVS, fire frequency, NIAFED, and GEEBAM) by 20% in each direction. For geographically-restricted species with latitudinal or longitudinal ranges less than one degree (~111 km), we buffered their extent by one degree in each direction along that axis or axes. These values were chosen as conservative estimates of species distributional extents, but we recognize that this treatment may over-inflate the distribution of some species with highly-localized ranges. These data are broken into four files:Map_data — hosts all of the map files used in the analysesBee-plant_point_data — hosts the ALA download data, combined bee dataset, and the life history and plant data spreadsheetWard_comparison_data — hosts some of the data used for the Ward co-analysis using our methodAll_other_R_data — hosts many of the runfiles from our main analysis

SA Country Fire Service (CFS) responds to a range of incidents across South Australia.
A Bushfire Safer Precinct is a place of relative safety and may be used as a place for people to stay in or as a place of first resort for those people who have decided that they will leave high risk locations early on a bad fire weather day.

Larger rural townships, provided they meet established criteria, will be classified by CFS as having a Bushfire Safer Precinct. Any Bushfire Safer Precinct within those townships will be clearly defined on a map by CFS that is available from the CFS website.

Properties on the outskirts of such townships generally face a higher level of risk when compared with those nearer the centre of town. The relative safety of these properties can be improved by property owners undertaking appropriate bushfire safety works to ensure they don't place themselves or the greater community at risk. This KML file describes the Safer Precincts areas in South Australia.

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)

The Bush Fire Prone Areas designated on 28/09/2019 dataset (OBRM-018) highlights new additions to the bush fire prone areas of Western Australia as designated by the Fire and Emergency Services (FES) Commissioner on 28 September 2019. This dataset supersedes the Bush Fire Prone Areas 2019 dataset (OBRM-014 and OBRM-016). For these areas, additional planning and building requirements may apply to development on and from 1 October 2019. This overlay should be used in conjunction with Bush Fire Prone Areas 2019 No3 (OBRM-017) dataset, which identifies all bush fire prone areas of Western Australia as designated by the Fire and Emergency Services (FES) Commissioner on 28 September 2019. More information is available from Office of Bushfire Risk Management (OBRM). Contact: Office of Bushfire Risk Management, 9395 9842, obrm@dfes.wa.gov.au

Land and emergency management agencies in Australia and overseas recognise the importance of an access network to support bushfire management activities. Ground and aerial access provides a platform for fire reduction and readiness activities and provides opportunities to contain fires before they escalate into major fires that could otherwise incur significant costs and potentially significant losses to community, cultural and environmental values.

Fire access within the ACT consists of a network of roads, tracks and trails that support fire prevention, readiness and response activities. The identification and maintenance of fire access is an integral element of fire management across the ACT.

Access management is divided into four areas:

1. maintenance

2. upgrade

3. construction

4. vegetation removal.

ACT PCS Fire Management Unit currently manage and maintain approximately 3,218 kilometres of roads and fire trails within the ACT. The classification of fire roads, tracks and trails is performance based to provide clear guidance to response agencies during incidents.

Ground access is defined in four classes:

1. Float road – an access road or trail accessible to a low loader float carrying a large bulldozer or other heavy equipment.

2. Tanker road – a fire trail of strategic importance accessible to a heavy tanker and a tipper carrying a small bulldozer.

3. Light unit trail – a fire trail accessible at minimum standard for a light unit.

4. Dormant fire trail – a trail that has been deliberately closed or not maintained and can be quickly re-opened with minimal works.

The objective of ground access works are to upgrade and maintain road pavements within the parks and reserves of the ACT to the above four classes standard under the current Bushfire Operational Plan. Many areas require ongoing general maintenance or upgrading to an appropriate standard. This is done principally to provide reliable access for operational requirements and for fire suppression activities in the event of a wildfire that may threaten the ACT.

Vegetation removal work is conducted by mechanical mulchers that reduce vegetation on roads and trails that impede access for operational and fire suppression requirements identified under the current Bushfire Operational Plan. The Parks and Conservation Service Fire Management Unit also commit a number of other contracted resources (graders, trucks, rollers, excavators and backhoes etc) to conduct daily scheduled maintenance as well as upgrade and construction services on a yearly basis within the ACT.

The Bushfire Operational Plans map shows the Territory and Municipal Services Directorate (TAMS) Bushfire Operations Plan (BOP) for the current financial year.

The TAMS BOP is derived from the 5 year Regional Fire Management Plans, which can also be viewed on this site. The TAMS BOP details the specific timing, type and location of fuel-reduction, access and infrastructure activities proposed to be undertaken in the ACT in the current financial; year, in accordance with Version 3 of the Strategic Bushfire Management Plan (SBMP).

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