Joint Fuel Management Program: Planned Burns and Vegetation Works in Victoria, 2019-2022

Victoria, Australia, is the geographic scope for this dataset of planned prescribed burns and mechanical vegetation works on public land. The Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action prepared the data, which covers a three-year planning period from 2019/20 to 2021/22 and includes burns from both state agencies and the Country Fire Authority (CFA). It was last updated in November 2019.

Use Cases

• Map wildfire fuel reduction activities based on the spatial extent of planned burns and works.
• Analyze prescribed burn planning cycles based on the three-year forward-looking period mentioned.
• Assess inter-agency coordination in fuel management based on the inclusion of both public land and CFA burns.
• Model potential smoke impacts from planned ignition events based on the spatial and temporal data.

Strengths

• Includes both prescribed burns and mechanical vegetation works, providing a multi-method view of fuel management.
• Covers a defined three-year forward planning period (2019/20 to 2021/22).
• Combines data from multiple agencies (public land and CFA).

Limitations

• The data's last substantive update was in November 2019; its current applicability for planning is unknown.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are 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

2019/20 to 2021/22 (planned period).

Freshness

The dataset metadata was last updated on 2026 04 08, but the data content itself was last updated in November 2019.

Geography

Victoria, Australia (primarily Public Land, with some CFA areas).