2021-06-08 P&E Agenda - Item 7 - Attachment 1 - Noosa Bushland Reserve Strategic Fire Management Plan 2021

5. Determining reserve priorities
It is not practical to initiate fire management actions for all 178 reserves at once. The Noosa Bushland
Reserve Strategic Fire Management Plan 2021 prioritises all reserves within the network through a
risk assessment process. Each Bushland Reserve consists of individual FMUs. FMU’s are also
assessed to determine the final priorities for operational works such as planned burns and fire trail
works. This process is shown diagrammatically below.




   Figure 3. Methodology for prioritising reserves and FMUs for fire mitigation actions including an annual
                                review of current climate change information.


5.1    Reserve network risk assessments
As discussed, risk assessments are completed for each of the reserves using the following
categories:

‘On-reserve’ risk assessment-people

This risk assessment uses the State Planning Policy (SPP) Potential Bushfire Intensity mapping
which identifies bushfire prone areas across the Queensland (see Map 2). The CSIRO developed
the methodology for the fire hazard mapping based on vegetation type fuel load (see Table 3), slope
and fire weather severity. The mapping identifies areas of medium, high and very fire hazard, which
means that fire can be difficult to control in these areas under severe weather conditions. Low hazard
areas are considered low bushfire risk and not included in the SPP mapping. Bushland reserves with

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