Planned Prescribed Burns for Public Land in Victoria, 2015-2018

The Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action provides this dataset representing the spatial extent of prescribed burns planned for ignition and associated mechanical and vegetation works on Public Land in Victoria. It is prepared annually for a three-year planning period, with this version covering the 2015/16 to 2017/18 seasons. The data was last updated in September 2015.

Use Cases

• Map planned fire management activities based on the described spatial extent of prescribed burns.
• Analyze the distribution of mechanical and vegetation works associated with fire prevention on public land.
• Support regional environmental planning and risk assessment based on the three-year prescribed burn schedule.
• Integrate planned burn locations with other geospatial layers for habitat or asset protection analysis.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly geospatial, provided in multiple GIS formats (SHP, GDB, etc.) for direct analysis.
• Covers a defined three-year planning period (2015/16 to 2017/18) for temporal analysis.
• Has a clear institutional source (Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The underlying data was last updated in September 2015; the 2026-04-09 timestamp likely reflects metadata only.

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action

Collection Method

Prepared annually by the department for prescribed burn planning.

Time Range

2015/16 to 2017/18

Freshness

The underlying data was last updated in September 2015.

Geography

Public Land in Victoria, Australia