Fires in Australia's forests 2016–21 (2024)

_Fires in Australia’s Forests 2016–21 (2024)_ is a continental spatial dataset of the extent and frequency of planned and unplanned fires occurring in forest in the five financial years between July 2016 and June 2021, assembled for _Australia's State of the Forests Report_ Indicator 3.1b Area of forest burnt by planned and unplanned fire. It was developed from multiple fire area datasets contributed by state and territory government agencies, after consultation with Australia’s Forest Fire Management Group. The fire dataset is then combined with forest cover information sourced from the _Forests of Australia (2023)_ dataset (https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/forestsaustralia/forest-data-maps-and-tools/spatial-data/forest-cover), and forest tenure information sourced from the _Tenure of Australia’s Forests (2023)_ dataset.\r\n\r\nPlanned fire: Fire started in accordance with a fire management plan or planned burning program, such as fuel-reduction burning or prescribed burning.\r\n\r\nUnplanned fire: Fire started naturally (such as by lightning), accidentally, or deliberately (such as by arson), but not in accordance with planned fire management prescriptions. Also called bushfire or wildfire.\r\n\r\nThe dataset was compiled by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) for the National Forest Inventory (NFI), a collaborative partnership between the Australian and state and territory governments. The role of the NFI is to collate, integrate and communicate information on Australia's forests. The NFI applies a national classification to state and territory data to allow seamless integration of these datasets. Multiple independent sources of external data are used to fill data gaps and improve the quality of the final dataset.​\r\n\r\nForest areas burnt by fire are allocated by the month of the fire to a financial year (July–June inclusive). Where more than one fire event occurs on any one hectare during a financial year, only the first fire is recorded for that area in the financial year. Fires are also classified into two categories, planned and unplanned, based on the fire seasonality and advice from state and territory agencies.\r\n\r\nThe _Fires in Australia’s forests 2016–21 (2024)_ dataset is produced to fulfil requirements of Australia's _National Forest Policy Statement_ and the _Regional Forests Agreement Act 2002_ (Cwth), and is used by the Australian Government for domestic and international reporting.​​《2016-2021年澳大利亚森林火灾（2024）》是一套大陆尺度空间数据集，涵盖2016年7月至2021年6月这五个财政年度内，澳大利亚森林中计划内与计划外火灾的过火范围及发生频次。该数据集系为《澳大利亚森林状况报告》指标3.1b「计划内与计划外火灾过火森林面积」编制而成。本数据集由澳大利亚森林火灾管理小组（Australia’s Forest Fire Management Group）会商后，基于各州及领地政府机构提供的多份火灾面积数据集整合开发。随后，该火灾数据集与源自《2023年澳大利亚森林》数据集（https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/forestsaustralia/forest-data-maps-and-tools/spatial-data/forest-cover）的森林覆盖信息，以及源自《2023年澳大利亚森林权属》数据集的森林权属信息完成融合。 计划内火灾：指严格按照火灾管理计划或计划火烧方案实施的火灾，例如减载火烧（fuel-reduction burning）或指定火烧（prescribed burning）。 计划外火灾：指自然起因（如雷击）、意外引发或蓄意纵火，但未遵循计划内火灾管理规程的火灾，亦被称为丛林野火（bushfire）或野外野火（wildfire）。 本数据集由澳大利亚农业与资源经济科学局（Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences，缩写ABARES）为国家森林清查项目（National Forest Inventory，缩写NFI）编制，该项目是澳大利亚联邦政府与各州及领地政府的合作项目。国家森林清查项目的职责为整理、整合并发布澳大利亚森林相关信息。该项目对各州及领地的数据集采用统一分类标准，以实现各数据集的无缝整合。同时，项目采用多份独立外部数据源填补数据空白，提升最终数据集的质量。 火灾过火森林面积将依据火灾发生月份划归至对应财政年度（财政年度为7月至次年6月，含首尾月份）。若某一公顷土地在单个财政年度内发生多次火灾，则该区域仅记录该财政年度内的首次火灾。此外，火灾将依据火灾发生季节特征及各州/领地机构的专业意见，划分为计划内与计划外两类。 《2016-2021年澳大利亚森林火灾（2024）》数据集的编制旨在满足澳大利亚《国家森林政策声明》及《2002年区域森林协定法案（联邦版）》（Regional Forests Agreement Act 2002 (Cwth)）的相关要求，并可供澳大利亚政府用于国内及国际报告编制。