Marginal Mile: Fire Prevention Zones in Eastern Victoria

A geospatial dataset identifying private land parcels within 1.5 kilometers of protected public land in Eastern Victoria. The data was created from a review of all government gazettes in 2019/20 and is maintained by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action. It includes information on local government areas, PLM 25 codes, and town and major road names.

Use Cases

• Mapping fire prevention responsibility zones based on proximity to national parks and state forests.
• Analyzing the spatial distribution of private land under fire management declarations based on the 1.5km boundary rule.
• Supporting annual declaration of prohibited fire periods for 14 local government areas based on the identified tenure.
• Integrating with other land management datasets using PLM 25 codes or local government area identifiers.

Strengths

• Data is derived from an official review of all government gazettes, suggesting a systematic creation process.
• Includes specific geographic identifiers like local government areas, PLM 25 codes, and town names.
• Available in multiple standard geospatial formats (DWG, GDB, SHP, etc.) for interoperability.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• The core data creation period was 2019/20; updates may be administrative rather than reflecting ground-truth changes.

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (Victoria, Australia).

Collection Method

Created from a review of all government gazettes in 2019/20.

Time Range

Data creation period 2019/20.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 06:53:59.119522; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Eastern Victoria, specifically 14 local government areas.