Authors / CoAuthors
Foo, A. | Orr, K. | Foo, A.
Abstract
<div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Apart from small updates to this dataset up until 30 June 2025 there are <strong>no plans</strong> for another major update to this Product. </div>
Product Type
dataset
eCat Id
149978
Contact for the resource
Resource provider
Point of contact
Cnr Jerrabomberra Ave and Hindmarsh Dr GPO Box 378
Canberra
ACT
2601
Australia
Point of contact
Digital Object Identifier
Keywords
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- National Bushfire Intelligence Capability
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- Bushfire
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- Bushfires
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- Fires
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- National Bushfire Intelligence Capability
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- Wildfires
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- Bushfire Boundaries
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- Published_External
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- bushfire history
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- Bushfire Extents
- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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- ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Publication Date
Creation Date
2024-10-24T19:00:00
Security Constraints
Legal Constraints
Status
completed
Purpose
To provide a nationally aggregated, harmonised and consistent dataset of historic bushfire extents.
Maintenance Information
notPlanned
Topic Category
geoscientificInformation
Series Information
Lineage
<div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>This dataset represents an updated aggregation of each jurisdiction (except the Northern Territory) fire history data to include information from the 2023-24 bushfire season. </div><div><br></div><div><strong>Sources of State and Territory Data are:</strong></div><div> - Australian Capital Territory Parks and Conservation </div><div> - New South Wales Parks and Wildlife Service</div><div> - New South Wales Rural Fire Service</div><div> - Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service</div><div> - South Australia Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources </div><div> - Tasmania Department of Natural Resources and Environment</div><div> - Victorian Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action</div><div> - Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions</div><div><br></div><div>* 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.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Northern Territory Data: </strong></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div><strong>Product Standardisation:</strong></div><div>The data provided by each jurisdiction is standardised and harmonised by Geoscience Australia. 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 (AFAC): </div><div>https://www.afac.com.au/insight/doctrine/article/current/fire-history-data-dictionary</div>
Parent Information
Extents
[-44.00, -9.00, 112.00, 154.00]
Reference System
GDA94 / geographic 2D (EPSG: 4283)
Spatial Resolution
Service Information
Associations
Source Information