Bushfire Risk Assessment and Risk Management Plan

                                Ecological Natural Area Management

      8.5     Recommendations for lodgement points for burning debris............................................................25
      8.6     Recommendations for on-going management of buildings and landscaping..................................26
      8.7     Recommendations for Part E: Natural hazards of the Queensland State Planning Policy 2017.....26
9 References................................................................................................................................................ 27
10 Appendices.............................................................................................................................................. 28
    10.1 Appendix 1: Regional Ecosystem full descriptions........................................................................28
    10.2 Appendix 2: Qualifications and experience of the author..............................................................29
    10.3 Appendix 3: The fire run paper by Tan (2006)...............................................................................30


                                                                List of Figures
Figure 1: Proposed site plan ............................................................................................................................ 9
Figure 2: Excerpt from The Noosa Plan Bushfire Overlay showing Potential Bushfire Impact areas..............10
Figure 3: Drone aerial photography acquired on 18 November 2021 showing the native forest vegetation, lot
configuration, rural residential areas mapped watercourses and 5m contour lines.........................................11
Figure 4: Map of the Queensland Vegetation Management Act conservation status of the mapped Regional
Ecosystems near the lots................................................................................................................................ 12
Figure 5: View north showing cleared and mown rural residential areas with scattered trees and woodland
vegetation confirmed as Melaleuca quinquenervia woodland beyond............................................................13
Figure 6: View west showing cleared and mown rural residential areas with scattered trees and woodland
vegetation confirmed as Melaleuca quinquenervia woodland beyond............................................................13
Figure 7: View south showing cleared and mown rural residential areas with scattered trees and woodland
vegetation confirmed as Melaleuca quinquenervia woodland beyond............................................................13
Figure 8: Map of the locations of the visually assessed vegetation . .............................................................14
Figure 9: Map of the patches of vegetation used for patch and corridor filtering.............................................18
Figure 10: Map showing potential house locations are in an area of Potential Bushfire Impact Buffer Class. 19
Figure 11: Map showing the modelled bushfire attack....................................................................................20
Figure 12: Fuel accumulation curves for open forests in eastern Australia.....................................................21
Figure 13: The assessed Bushfire Attack Level areas in the lots....................................................................23
Figure 14: Methodologies for minimising the lodgement points for burning debris around the house.............25

                                                                 List of Tables
Table 1: Areas of the lots................................................................................................................................. 10
Table 2: Regional Ecosystems near the lots................................................................................................... 12
Table 3: Potential fuel loads for the assessed vegetation communities based on their applicable potential fuel
hazard classes................................................................................................................................................ 17
Table 4: Table of Potential Bushfire Intensity Class derived from Potential Fire line Intensity.........................17
Table 5: Tabulation of the potential bushfire intensity classes for each of the patches ...................................18
Table 6: Surface and total fuel loads for use in AS3959 Method 2 assessments of BALs...............................20
Table 7: Excerpt from State Planning Policy Natural Hazards, Risk and Resilience Technical Manual of
potential maximum fuel accumulation for the subject vegetation communities...............................................21




Bushfire Risk Assessment and Management Plan for a house at 15 Jirrama Cr, Cooroibah                                                         November 2021

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