Product catalogue
Historical Bushfire Boundaries - Version 2.0
<div>The Bushfire Boundaries - Historical Dataset (version 2) represents the aggregation of jurisdictional supplied burnt areas polygons that date from the early 1900's through to 2023 (excluding the Northern Territory). 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 boundary dataset derived from the authoritative state and territory agencies in both 2023 (this dataset) and again in November 2024. </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>
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-10-19
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-11-29T04:58:52
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/149017
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/149017
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Author Foo, A.
Internal Contact Author Coghlan, R.
Internal Contact Author Orr, K.
Internal Contact
- Purpose
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To provide a nationally aggregated dataset of historic bushfire boundaries.
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Resource provider Place and Communities Division
External Contact Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Orr, K.
Place and Communities Internal Contact
- Spatial representation type
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
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Temporal element
- Time period
- 1899-12-30 2023-10-15
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
Resource format
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Product data repository: Various Formats
- Protocol
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FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY
- Name of the resource
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
- Description
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Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes
- Project
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National Bushfire Intelligence Capability
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- Keywords
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Bushfires
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- Keywords
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Fires
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- Keywords
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National Bushfire Intelligence Capability
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- Keywords
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Wildfires
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- Keywords
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Bushfire Boundaries
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- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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- Keywords
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Published_External
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Resource constraints
- Title
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
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CC-BY
- Edition
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4.0
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details User Any
- Use constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2023
Resource constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Classification system
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Australian Government Security Classification System
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Was informed by
- Title
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Historical Bushfire Boundaries - Version 1.0
- Citation identifier
- 147763
- Citation identifier
- a82c263f-dba6-457a-aafd-bf869fe7171a
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Informed
- Title
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Bushfire Historical Extents - Version 3.0
- Citation identifier
- 149978
- Citation identifier
- eb1209b4-99cf-4265-965c-ad9ca1a702c7
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice facsimile
- OnLine resource
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Download the dataset (gdb) [437.6 MB]
Download the dataset (gdb) [437.6 MB]
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zip
- File decompression technique
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unzip
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Resource lineage
- Statement
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<div>This dataset extends upon the first version of this dataset to be built and released under the Australia Research Data Commons Project in early 2023. </div><div>This dataset (version 2) represents an updated aggregation of each jurisdiction (except the Northern Territory) fire history data to include information from the 2022-23 bushfire season. </div><div><br></div><div>Agencies who have provided data include:</div><div>· Australian Capital Territory Parks and Conservation </div><div>· New South Wales Parks and Wildlife 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 Environment, Land, Water and Planning</div><div>· Western Australia Department of Fire and Emergency Services</div><div><br></div><div>Northern Territory Data: </div><div>The Northern Territory Government are progressing in the development of their Bushfire Boundary Capabilities. Work is underway with the relevant agency’s to be able to incorporate NT Government approved Historical Bushfire Boundary data in the future. </div><div><br></div><div>Product Standardisation:</div><div>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 (AFAC): </div><div> https://www.afac.com.au/insight/doctrine/article/current/fire-history-data-dictionary</div>
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/GDA94 / geographic 2D (EPSG: 4283)
Metadata constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/cb5b5914-d952-4cbd-8919-2941c1ac9272
- Title
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GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Orr, K.
Place and Communities Internal Contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/149017
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-11-24T21:40:40.987Z
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-11-29T04:35:23
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-11-24T21:41:38.715Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-3
- Title
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
- Edition
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551