Appendix C - Bushfire Hazard Assesment

2.1.3 Maximum Landscape Slope
The vegetation influencing the proposed build location is generally located across slope of the
development area or on a slope <2 degrees downslope 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 47.




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