Planned Prescribed Burns for Victorian Public Land, 2016-2019

The Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action provides a geospatial dataset representing the planned spatial extent of prescribed burns and associated mechanical and vegetation works on Public Land in Victoria. It is prepared annually and covers a rolling three-year planning period, with this version last updated in September 2016. The data is available in multiple GIS file formats including SHP, TAB, and GDB.

Use Cases

• Mapping planned fuel reduction activities based on the described spatial extents.
• Analyzing the distribution of prescribed burns over a three-year planning period.
• Integrating planned burn locations with other land-use or environmental datasets for risk assessment.
• Planning associated mechanical and vegetation works mentioned in the dataset description.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple common GIS formats (SHP, TAB, GDB, DWG, DXF, MIF).
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Covers a defined three-year planning period for prescribed burns.

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 by the responsible government department for planning purposes.

Time Range

Planned for the three-year period from 2016/17 to 2018/19.

Freshness

The underlying data was last updated in September 2016, though the record was refreshed on the platform in April 2026.

Geography

Public Land in Victoria, Australia.