New South Wales Historical Bushfire Boundaries from 1998 to 2022

1998 to 2022 bushfire and prescribed burn boundaries within New South Wales, Australia, with known ignition and extinguish dates. This dataset is a filtered visualisation product derived from a larger national dataset. It was published by Spatial Services (DCS) in August 2023.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial and temporal trends of bushfires based on ignition_date and location.
• Compare fire duration and intensity based on the calculated duration attribute.
• Map different fire types across the state based on the fire_type attribute.

Strengths

• Covers a 24-year time range from 1998 to 2022.
• Includes both bushfires and prescribed burns.
• Contains calculated duration attribute derived from ignition and extinguish dates.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Filtered from 'The Historical Bush Fire Boundaries' dataset by Geoscience Australia.

Time Range

1998 to 2022

Freshness

Data currency is listed as 2022-09-01.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia