When CFA attends a fire or other incident (e.g. road rescue) a report is prepared on the characteristics of the incident and entered into FIRS (Fire and Incident Reporting System). Data available in FIRS include type of incident (e.g. bushfire/grassfire, road rescue, residential fires), call characteristics, area characteristics, rescue information, measures for hazardous materials (if applicable), ignition sources, fire fighting (e.g how the fire was extinguished) and structure characteristics. By collecting information on fire and incidents FIRS assists with better understanding of the prevalence of each incident and contributing factors to incidents. Data are collected on an ongoing basis and have been captured since 1994.

Where CFA is contacted by ESTA to respond to an incident, a report is generated in FIRS. Data available in FIRS include type of incident (e.g. bushfire/grassfire, road rescue, residential fires), call characteristics, area characteristics, rescue information, measures for hazardous materials (if applicable), ignition sources, firefighting (e.g how the fire was extinguished) and structure characteristics. Data are collected on an ongoing basis and have been captured since 1994. Summary reports for calls received capture the types of emergency calls received by CFA, including good intent and false alarm calls.

CFA captures data on community-based information and education interventions provided by CFA staff and volunteers. These include community meetings, Home Bushfire Advisory Service (HBAS) visits and School Education Programs. Data are captured by location across Victoria to monitor intervention coverage. Many of these interventions were implemented as a result of recommendations made by the 2009 Victorian Bushfire Royal Commission (VBRC). Data are captured since inception of each program (2009-2010).

SA Country Fire Service responds to a range of incidents across South Australia. This data set provides information on incidents attended by CFS.

Summary of Regional Incidents for SA Country Fire Service.

Note: This is a large dataset. To download, go to ArcGIS Open Data Set and click the download button, and under additional resources select the geodatabase or shapefile option. This data publication contains a spatial database of wildfires that occurred in the United States from 1992 to 2018. It is the fourth update of a publication originally generated to support the national Fire Program Analysis (FPA) system. The wildfire records were acquired from the reporting systems of federal, state, and local fire organizations. The following core data elements were required for records to be included in this data publication: discovery date, final fire size, and a point location at least as precise as a Public Land Survey System (PLSS) section (1-square mile grid). The data were transformed to conform, when possible, to the data standards of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG), including an updated wildfire-cause standard (approved August 2020). Basic error-checking was performed and redundant records were identified and removed, to the degree possible. In addition to incorporating data for 2016-2018, some previously unavailable nonfederal wildfire records for the period 1999-2015 were acquired either directly from the state fire services (NH, NJ) or indirectly from an updated National Association of State Foresters database (AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, HI, ID, IL, OK, SD) and added. The resulting product, referred to as the Fire Program Analysis fire-occurrence database (FPA FOD), includes 2.17 million geo-referenced wildfire records, representing a total of 165 million acres burned during the 27-year period. Identifiers necessary to link the point-based, final-fire-reporting information to published large-fire-perimeter and operational-situation-reporting datasets are included.,

CFA's preventable residential fire fatality data captures fatalities as a result of residential fires that were started accidentally or as a result of a fault, failure or misuse of an electrical or gas appliance. Not included in these data are fatalities as a result of suspected homicide or suicide, or as a result of a bushfire. These data are captured for CFA to meet their statutory obligations and to identify areas for intervention (e.g. product recalls). The data outline the number of preventable residential fatal fires per year in the state of Victoria.

Due to the level of impact across the landscape during the 2019-20 fire season, the Regional Fire Management Plan (RFMP) 2019-28 was revised. With three years remaining before the scheduled five year review the RFMP was amended to reflect the changes in the environment. We are currently monitoring ecological recovery and fuel-load response. Data collected during these processes will be used to support a comprehensive review of proposed treatments. This review will be undertaken prior to the 2024-28 period. Bushfire management in the ACT Bushfires are an inevitable part of living in the ACT. Canberra is described as the bush capital for good reason, with forest and grassland woven through its urban areas. Along with the rural areas and the mountainous and forested landscape to the west and south, living in the ACT means we live in or near an environment where bushfire is a natural occurrence.

Planned burns refer to the controlled use of fire under carefully managed conditions to reduce fuel such as dead wood, leaf litter, bark and shrubs. Planned burning is conducted by CFA brigades on behalf of, and at the request of, private land owners or managers of other reserves such as roads rail corridors, council reserves and water authority land. Data include the aggregated locations of planned burns attended by CFA (defined as fully planned burns on private land that have been proposed, initiated, completed and the treatment signed off). These data only include burns where written plans are in place, therefore smaller burns (less than 0.1Ha) are unlikely to be reflected in the data.

Data sets used in the analysis presented in the manuscript “Characterizing grassland fire activity in the Flint Hills region and air quality using satellite and routine surface monitor data”. The datasets used for the analysis include data from routine monitor networks located in the central U.S., satellite fire detection data, and burn area estimates. The data supporting each of the Figures in the manuscript are provided in a file specific for that Figure, so there is one file for each Figure. Each file is in comma-separated value (csv) format and contains observation data used to generate that Figure. Meta data on what is included in each file is provided in the Data Dictionary. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Baker, K., S. Koplitz, K. Foley, L. Avey, and A. Hawkins. Characterizing grassland fire activity in the Flint Hills region and air quality using satellite and routine surface monitor data. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. Elsevier BV, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 659: 1555-1566, (2019).