Bushfires

How is fire risk changing, and how vulnerable is your area?

For our package on bushfires last summer, we worked with Dean Marchiori of Wave Data Labs to bring together state data on areas marked as being either vulnerable to Bushfire-prone Areas or Bushfire Protection Areas. These maps visualise how much of your suburb falls within them:

viewof selectedRegion = Inputs.select(
  new Map([
    ["New South Wales", "nsw"],
    ["Victoria", "vic"],
    ["Tasmania", "tas"],
    ["Queensland", "qld"],
    ["South Australia", "sa"],
    ["Northern Territory", "nt"],
    ["Western Australia", "wa"],
    ["Australian Capital Territory", "act"]
  ]), {
    value: ["New South Wales", "nsw"]
  })

html`
  <div style="position:relative; padding-bottom: 75%; margin-top: 25px; margin-bottom: 25px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; border-radius: 5px;">
  <iframe allow="fullscreen; clipboard-write self https://dec2023-news.360info-bushfire-prone-land.pages.dev" allowfullscreen="true" src="https://dec2023-news.360info-bushfire-prone-land.pages.dev/map/?state=${selectedRegion}" title="Interactive: bushfire prone areas" style="width:100%; height:100%; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; border:none; background-color: white;" scrolling="no">
  </iframe>
</div>
`

New South WalesVictoriaTasmaniaQueenslandSouth AustraliaNorthern TerritoryWestern AustraliaAustralian Capital Territory

selectedRegion = "nsw"

I also analysed climate data to see how the frequency of severe fire danger has changed: