Appendix B - Bushfire Hazard Assessment · RAL22/0006

2.1.3 Maximum Landscape Slope
The vegetation within the west to south-west of the development area is located downslope of the
development area on moderate to steep slopes of 17 degrees. The vegetation to the south and east of
the development area is generally located across slope or upslope of the development area. Where the
slope under hazardous vegetation is located across slope, it is considered ‘upslope’ irrespective of the
slope of land between the site and the edge of the hazardous vegetation. Note that for the purposes of
undertaking a bushfire hazard assessment, where the topography is flat or where vegetation is located
upslope of an assessment site, a slope of 1 degree is required to be used to satisfy the mathematical
formula, however it has negligible impact on the calculations.

2.1.4   Fire Danger Index
The Queensland government produce a publicly available data package which includes selected inputs
and information used by the CSIRO in conjunction with the QFES to prepare the State-wide Bushfire
Hazard Area (Bushfire Prone Area) mapping (July 2014). The data includes Fire Weather Severity (Fire
Danger Index - FDI). A review of the dataset for the assessment area indicates that the site is located
within a band of FDI 46.




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