Historical Bushfire Boundaries

This dataset was produced under Stream 1 - Work Package 4 of the 2021-23 Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Bushfire Data Challenge Project; a collaborative partnership between the ARDC, Geoscience Australia, and the Emergency Management Spatial Information Network. The Project’s aim was to bring together a single nationally consistent and harmonised historical bushfire boundary data derived from the authoritative state and territory agencies. Geoscience Australia's role within this project was to; negotiate access to the data, collate and transform the data into the National Standard and then deliver the 'Historical Bushfire Boundaries' data through a static file and a webservice.<br>More information about the ARDC Project and Work Package 4: <br>https://ardc.edu.au/program/bushfire-data-challenges/ More information about the Fire History Data Dictionary: <br>https://www.afac.com.au/insight/doctrine/article/current/fire-history-data-dictionary<br>The Historical Bushfire Boundaries dataset represents the aggregation of jurisdictional supplied burnt areas polygons stemming from the early 1900's through to 2022 (excluding the Northern Territory). The burnt area data represents curated jurisdictional owned polygons of both bushfires and prescribed (planned) burns. To ensure the dataset adhered to the nationally approved and agreed data dictionary for fire history Geoscience Australia had to modify some of the attributes presented.<br>The information provided within this dataset is reflective only of data supplied by participating authoritative agencies and may or may not represent all fire history within a state.<br><b>Important:</b> The Northern Australia Fire Information (NAFI) data has been intentionally omitted from this dataset (refer to Lineage).