Product catalogue
Bushfire Historical Extents - Version 3.0
<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>
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2024-10-24T19:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-11-04
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/149978
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/149978
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Author Foo, A.
Internal Contact Author Orr, K.
Internal Contact Editor Foo, A.
Internal Contact
- Purpose
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To provide a nationally aggregated, harmonised and consistent dataset of historic bushfire extents.
- 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.
Internal Contact
- Spatial representation type
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1899-12-30 2024-08-29
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
Resource format
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Product data repository: Various Formats
- Website
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
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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- Project
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Bushfire
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- Keywords
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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
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- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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Resource constraints
- Title
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
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CC-BY
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4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
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© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2024
Resource constraints
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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 2.0
- Citation identifier
- 149017
- Citation identifier
- cb5b5914-d952-4cbd-8919-2941c1ac9272
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
- 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 dataset (gdb zip) [775.7 MB]
Download dataset (gdb zip) [775.7 MB]
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gdb
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unzip
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Resource lineage
- Statement
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<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>
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/eb1209b4-99cf-4265-965c-ad9ca1a702c7
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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.
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/149978
- Date info (Creation)
- 2024-11-04T00:53:52
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-11-04T00:53:52
Metadata standard
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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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