Processed statistics on the fraction of each suburb that is covered by a state government "bushfire prone area", "fire protection area" or similarly named overlay.
This Australia-wide dataset combines all state and territory agency datasets describing land areas classified as 'Bushfire Prone'. Definitions and methodologies vary widely from state-to-state. This map attempts to unify the basic definitions to contrast policy and highlight considerations for planning, the built environment and living with fire.
Columns include:
STE_CODE21: state code from the Australian Bureau of StatisticsSTE_NAME21: state name from the ABSSAL_CODE21: suburb code from the ABSSAL_NAME21: suburb code from the ABSarea: area of the suburb in square kilometresbf_area: area of the suburb in square kilometres that is bushfire prone (or similar)bf_area_pct: fraction of the suburb (0 to 1) that is bushfire prone (or similar)cent_lat: latitude of the suburb's centroid (using the largest polygon)cent_lon: longitude of the suburb's centroid (using the largest polygon)
Produced by /analysis/BFP.
Processed image sequence (on a transparent background) of burnt areas of south-east Australia (anim) and Western Australia (anim_wa) over time, for compositing in video.
Produced by /analysis/burned_area.
Vector tiles based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics' ASGS Edition 3 Suburbs and Localities (licensed under CC BY 4.0).
To generate the tiles from the ABS shapefile (assuming it has been downloaded as a shapefile and unzipped), use ogr2ogr and tippecanoe:
# convert shapefile to wgs84 geojson
ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON suburbs.geojson SAL_2021_AUST_GDA2020_SHP/SAL_2021_AUST_GDA2020.shp
# turn geojson into directory of tiles
tippecanoe -zg --no-tile-compression --output-to-directory suburb-tiles suburbs.geojsonThese data are the raw downloads from the state agencies. They are not included with the repository, but the analysis scripts require them to be present.
File: data/raw/nsw_bf_raw.zip
Link: https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/bush-fire-prone-land
Metadata: https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/bush-fire-prone-land
User Guide: http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/4412/Guideline-for-Councils-to-Bushfire-Prone-Area-Land-Mapping.pdf
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Date Accessed: 2023-08-10
File:
"data/raw/qld_capeyork_bf_raw.zip"
"data/raw/qld_centralqueensland_bf_raw.zip"
"data/raw/qld_centralwestqueensland_bf_raw.zip"
"data/raw/qld_darlingdowns_bf_raw.zip"
"data/raw/qld_farnorthqueensland_bf_raw.zip"
"data/raw/qld_mackayisaacandwhitsunday_bf_raw.zip"
"data/raw/qld_northqueensland_bf_raw.zip"
"data/raw/qld_northwestqueensland_bf_raw.zip"
"data/raw/qld_southeastqueensland_bf_raw.zip"
"data/raw/qld_southerngulfofcarpentaria_bf_raw.zip"
"data/raw/qld_southwestqueensland_bf_raw.zip"
"data/raw/qld_widebayburnett_bf_raw.zip"
Link: https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/bushfire-prone-area-queensland-series
Metadata: https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/bushfire-prone-area-queensland-series/resource/c157d61a-ce1e-4834-a35d-d94ae2421e5a
User Guide: https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/bushfire-hazard-area-bushfire-prone-area-mapping-methodology-for-queensland
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Date Accessed: 2023-08-10
File:
data/raw/vic_bf_raw.zip
data/raw/vic_bmo_raw.zip
Link: https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/designated-bushfire-prone-area-bpa2
Metadata: https://metashare.maps.vic.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/api/records/93136d30-5c02-597f-bdec-c26928766b41/formatters/sdm-html?root=html&output=html
User Guide: https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/guides-and-resources/guides/all-guides/bushfire-map-reviews
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Date Accessed: 2023-08-10
File: data/raw/sa_bf_raw.zip
Link: https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/bushfire-protection-areas
Metadata: https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/bushfire-protection-areas/resource/81b2721e-fbd8-482e-ab0a-d84a55ecb496?inner_span=True
User Guide: https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/bushfire-protection-areas
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Date Accessed: 2023-08-10
File: data/raw/act_bf_raw.zip
Link: https://actmapi-actgov.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/7c4ae4305e6b43cfb2135cf7fde498f4/about
Metadata: https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/7c4ae4305e6b43cfb2135cf7fde498f4/info/metadata/metadata.xml?format=default&output=html
User Guide: https://www.data.act.gov.au/dataset/Bushfire-Prone-Areas/5yyj-ridt
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Date Accessed: 2023-08-10
File: data/raw/wa_bf_raw.zip
Link: https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/bush-fire-prone-areas-2021-obrm-019
Metadata: https://services.slip.wa.gov.au/public/rest/services/SLIP_Public_Services/Bush_Fire_Prone_Areas/MapServer/16
User Guide: https://www.dfes.wa.gov.au/waemergencyandriskmanagement/obrm/Documents/OBRM-Map-of-Bush-Fire-Prone-Areas-FAQ.pdf
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Date Accessed: 2023-08-10
File: data/raw/nt_bf_raw.zip
Link: https://nt.gov.au/emergency/bushfire/prepare-and-plan/fire-protection-zones
Metadata: https://nt.gov.au/emergency/bushfire/prepare-and-plan/fire-protection-zones
User Guide: https://nt.gov.au/emergency/bushfire/prepare-and-plan/fire-protection-zones
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Date Accessed: 2023-08-10
File:
data/raw/tas_bf_raw.zip
data/raw/tas_bf1_raw.zip
Link: https://listdata.thelist.tas.gov.au/opendata/
Metadata: https://www.thelist.tas.gov.au/app/content/data/geo-meta-data-record?detailRecordUID=d4c9d9cd-ef64-4fdd-917d-a757c67db697
User Guide: https://www.fire.tas.gov.au/Show?pageId=colBushfireProneAreas
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Date Accessed: 2023-08-10
Locations and extents of historical bushfires and burning events, from Geoscience Australia (GA).
file: data/fire_history/Historical_Bushfire_Boundaries.geojson
Link: https://digital.atlas.gov.au/datasets/f2553df517b24672bc931afc9f3f8ac3_17/about
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
The animated fire extents exported from this raw data source are stored as a library of .png files in data/final/anim and are projected using the below CRS. See analysis/burned_area/burned_area.qmd for more details.
Coordinate Reference System:
User input: EPSG:3857
wkt:
PROJCRS["WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator",
BASEGEOGCRS["WGS 84",
ENSEMBLE["World Geodetic System 1984 ensemble",
MEMBER["World Geodetic System 1984 (Transit)"],
MEMBER["World Geodetic System 1984 (G730)"],
MEMBER["World Geodetic System 1984 (G873)"],
MEMBER["World Geodetic System 1984 (G1150)"],
MEMBER["World Geodetic System 1984 (G1674)"],
MEMBER["World Geodetic System 1984 (G1762)"],
MEMBER["World Geodetic System 1984 (G2139)"],
ELLIPSOID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,
LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]],
ENSEMBLEACCURACY[2.0]],
PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],
ID["EPSG",4326]],
CONVERSION["Popular Visualisation Pseudo-Mercator",
METHOD["Popular Visualisation Pseudo Mercator",
ID["EPSG",1024]],
PARAMETER["Latitude of natural origin",0,
ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
ID["EPSG",8801]],
PARAMETER["Longitude of natural origin",0,
ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
ID["EPSG",8802]],
PARAMETER["False easting",0,
LENGTHUNIT["metre",1],
ID["EPSG",8806]],
PARAMETER["False northing",0,
LENGTHUNIT["metre",1],
ID["EPSG",8807]]],
CS[Cartesian,2],
AXIS["easting (X)",east,
ORDER[1],
LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]],
AXIS["northing (Y)",north,
ORDER[2],
LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]],
USAGE[
SCOPE["Web mapping and visualisation."],
AREA["World between 85.06°S and 85.06°N."],
BBOX[-85.06,-180,85.06,180]],
ID["EPSG",3857]]