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NPWS Fire History - Wildfires and Prescribed Burns

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 06/03/2026

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FireHistory is a feature class that holds final fire boundaries for every year for which there is data. Within the feature class are two subtypes Wildfire (FireType 1) and Prescribed Burn (FireType 2). The polygons are mutually exclusive within each year and they often extend outside NPWS Estate. Fire history is captured by all regions within NPWS. At times data captured by the Rural Fire Service (RFS) and Forestry Corporation NSW are imported into this GDB also. The data are now stored centrally in ArcSDE. Enhance Bushfire Management Program (EBMP) Technical Officers collate, update and amend branch data using versions from ArcSDE.

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Additional Info

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Title NPWS Fire History - Wildfires and Prescribed Burns
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/3ccf63aa-d17d-4094-9c6a-343a323dd4a5
Remote Last Updated 03/03/2026
Contact Point
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
?datansw@customerservice.nsw.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/1920 - 02/03/2026
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        154.0,
        -38.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -28.0
      ],
      [
        141.0,
        -28.0
      ],
      [
        141.0,
        -38.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -38.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "NPWS Fire History - Wildfires and Prescribed Burns". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-fire-history-wildfires-and-prescribed-burns-1e8b6