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Historical Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) - Statewide 2015-16

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 13/11/2025

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Fire severity is a metric of the loss of biomass caused by fire. In collaboration with the NSW Rural Fire Service, the department's Remote Sensing & Regulatory Mapping team has developed a semi-automated approach to mapping fire extent and severity through a machine learning framework based on satellite imagery. The method uses standardised classes to allow comparison of different fires across the landscape. The FESM severity classes include: unburnt, low severity (burnt understory, unburnt canopy), moderate severity (partial canopy scorch), high severity (complete canopy scorch, partial canopy consumption), extreme (full canopy consumption). Here we provide statewide historical severity mapping of fires >100ha for the 2015-16 fire year, which is based on Landsat satellite imagery (30m pixels). From 2016/17 to the current fire year is covered in the statewide FESM data, which is based on Sentinel 2 satellite imagery (10m pixels).

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Title Historical Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) - Statewide 2015-16
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/49ca993a-ccf2-4c7f-a1d8-8f29aea71745
Remote Last Updated 23/10/2025
Contact Point
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
?datansw@customerservice.nsw.gov.au
Reference Period 01/07/2015 - 30/06/2016
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Historical Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) - Statewide 2015-16". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-historical-fire-extent-and-severity-mapping-fesm-statewide-201516