RFS Data Supply: NSW Fire History and Hazard Reduction Data

Monthly updated spatial data from the NSW Rural Fire Service, including archived fire data from the current fire year. The dataset contains fire history, bush fire prone land, hazard reduction advice, and administrative boundaries for RFS stations and districts. It is produced by the NSW Government and supplied to Emergency Service Agencies.

Use Cases

• Modeling bushfire risk based on historical fire data and bush fire prone land maps.
• Planning hazard reduction burns using the hazard reduction advice data.
• Mapping emergency service coverage based on RFS station, brigade, and district boundaries.
• Analyzing fire season trends based on archived fire history data.

Strengths

• Contains archived fire data from the current fire year, enabling temporal analysis.
• Includes multiple spatial data layers such as fire history, hazard advice, and administrative boundaries.
• Update frequency is monthly, suggesting relatively current data.

Limitations

• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data accuracy is described as 'Varied', requiring careful validation for critical applications.

Provenance

Source

NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS)

Collection Method

Periodic ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process.

Time Range

Current fire year with archived data.

Freshness

Monthly - As Needed

Geography

New South Wales, Australia