Western Australia Bush Fire Prone Areas 2025

2025 data identifies bush fire prone areas in Western Australia, including vegetation zones and surrounding 100-meter buffers. The dataset is maintained by the Office of Bushfire Risk Management and updated after each formal review. It is designed for integration with mapping systems.

Use Cases

• Integrate bush fire prone vegetation and 100-meter buffer zone layers into hazard mapping systems for property risk assessment.
• Analyze spatial distribution of bush fire prone areas to inform regional land-use planning and emergency response strategies.
• Link bush fire prone area polygons with other geographic datasets using the OBRM identifier for environmental modeling.

Strengths

• Represents the most current official bush fire prone area designation for Western Australia as of 2025.
• Maintained by the authoritative Office of Bushfire Risk Management (OBRM) with a defined update process.
• Includes a defined 100-meter buffer zone surrounding bush fire prone vegetation for risk analysis.

Limitations

• Spatial coverage is limited to the state of Western Australia, not national.
• Specific technical details on data resolution, accuracy, or validation methods are not provided in the input.
• The input does not specify the total number of geographic features or polygons contained.

Provenance

Source

Office of Bushfire Risk Management (OBRM), Department of Fire and Emergency Services, Western Australia.

Collection Method

Identification based on the presence and proximity of bush fire prone vegetation, plus a legislated buffer.

Time Range

Current as of the 2025 review.

Freshness

Updated after each formal review; last metadata update was 2026-03-24.

Geography

Western Australia, Australia.