Planned Prescribed Burns for Public Land in Victoria, 2014-2017

Three years of planned prescribed burn data for Victoria, Australia, covering the period from 2014/15 to 2016/17. The dataset represents the spatial extent of planned burns, mechanical works, and vegetation works on Public Land. It is prepared annually by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action for a rolling three-year planning period.

Use Cases

• Mapping planned fire management zones based on the spatial extent of prescribed burns.
• Analyzing the distribution of planned mechanical and vegetation works on public land.
• Assessing regional fire management strategies for a three-year planning period.
• Integrating planned burn data with other geospatial layers for environmental impact studies.

Strengths

• Data is prepared annually for a rolling three-year planning period.
• Spatial data is provided in multiple geospatial formats (TAB, MIF, GDB, SHP, DWG, DXF).
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Prepared annually for prescribed burns planned for the immediate three-year period.

Time Range

2014/15 - 2016/17

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 02:14:43.642035; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Public Land in Victoria, Australia