Planned Burns in Brisbane City Council Area, 2016

Planned burn permit data for the Brisbane City Council area in 2016. The dataset shows the approximate geographic extent of proposed burns used to maintain forest health and lessen wildfire impact. It is provided by the Brisbane City Council under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated in June 2026.

Use Cases

• Map fire fuel reduction zones based on the described planned burn permits.
• Analyze spatial distribution of habitat refuges based on the description of areas left untouched.
• Model wildfire risk mitigation based on the council's aim to reduce fire fuel by 75% over 60-80% of the land.
• Assess environmental management strategies for forest health maintenance as described.

Strengths

• Specific temporal coverage for the year 2016.
• Clear stated purpose for planned burns: to reduce fire fuel by 75% over 60-80% of the land.
• Data is provided under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is in the future (2026-06-28).

Provenance

Source

Brisbane City Council ([email protected])

Time Range

2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-28 14:44:30.028129; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Brisbane City Council area, Queensland, Australia