Benefits

Fire and emergency services personnel gather at an experimental burn

Fire and emergency services personnel gather at an experimental burn

Experimental burn at the Mogo bushfire burnover facility

The National Bushfire Intelligence Capability (NBIC) is collaborating to deliver knowledge, data and mapping products providing a national picture of bushfire hazard and risk.

Benefits include:

  • A capability providing access for local, state and national users to consistent and up-to-date information.
  • More cost-effective creation and maintenance of information platforms and shared technologies.
  • More systematic data sharing among and within public and private sectors.
  • A stronger evidence base that includes climate change data for local, state and national hazard and risk management decision support.
  • Ongoing improvement of underpinning science and systems.
  • More effective and reliable capture of lessons learned for application to future fire events.
Read about the information that will be delivered

Use cases

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About the National Bushfire Intelligence Capability

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An aerial view of burnt vegetation and houses from the Tathra bushfire

Award for national bushfire extents data

The National Bushfire Intelligence Capability (NBIC) congratulates their collaborators, Geoscience Australia and the Emergency Management Spatial Information Network Australia, on taking out the Data Sharing and Partnerships award at the Australian Public Service Data Awards.

A photo of two people walking down a hospital corridor

Use case: Department of Health and Aged Care

As the national agency responsible for health and wellbeing, the Department of Health and Aged Care needs accurate and timely data and information to manage responses to bushfires for both short- and long-term planning.

Grass fire with flames

Use case: Fireline intensity potential layers

A landscape image superimposed with coloured dots to represent bushfire risk

Use case: Infrastructure planning and upgrades

storm clouds

Use case: Updating fire weather potential