Planned Prescribed Burns on Victorian Public Land, 2018-2021

Planned prescribed burns and associated vegetation works for Public Land in Victoria. The dataset is prepared annually and covers a rolling three-year planning period, including burns from the Country Fire Authority and VicForests. It was last updated in November 2018 by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action.

Use Cases

• Modeling wildfire risk based on planned fuel reduction activities.
• Analyzing spatial distribution of prescribed burns for land management planning.
• Monitoring compliance and progress of joint fuel management plans across agencies.

Strengths

• Covers a three-year planning period for prescribed burns.
• Includes data from multiple agencies (CFA and VicForests).
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (DWG, GDB, SHP, etc.).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect temporal bias as the plan is from 2018.

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2018/19 - 2020/21

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 07:25:06.912183; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Public Land in Victoria, Australia