Bushfire Report

                                Ecological Natural Area Management



                                                            Table of Contents
1 Executive Summary.................................................................................................................................... 5
2 Introduction................................................................................................................................................. 7
    2.1 The reasons for the Bushfire Risk Assessment and Management Plan............................................7
    2.2 Commissioning of the Bushfire Risk Assessment and Management Plan........................................7
    2.3 The aim of the Bushfire Risk Assessment and Management Plan....................................................7
    2.4 Legislative considerations................................................................................................................. 7
    2.5 Other regulatory considerations........................................................................................................ 7
3 Site description........................................................................................................................................... 8
    3.1 Location............................................................................................................................................ 8
    3.2 Zoning............................................................................................................................................... 8
    3.3 Building Code of Australia building class.......................................................................................... 9
    3.4 Applicable development codes......................................................................................................... 9
    3.5 Mapped bushfire hazard................................................................................................................... 9
    3.6 Topography....................................................................................................................................... 9
    3.7 Area of the lot.................................................................................................................................... 9
    3.8 Climate.............................................................................................................................................. 9
4 Site vegetation assessment..................................................................................................................... 10
    4.1 Site aerial photography................................................................................................................... 10
    4.2 Mapped Remnant Regional Ecosystems........................................................................................ 11
    4.3 Visually assessed vegetation communities – terrestrial photography.............................................12
    4.4 Map of visually assessed vegetation communities.........................................................................13
5 Conservation significance of the vegetation.......................................................................................... 14
   5.1 Conservation significance of the vegetation from Queensland Vegetation Management Act..........14
   5.2 Conservation significance of the vegetation from the The Noosa Plan...........................................14
6 Bushfire risk assessment........................................................................................................................ 15
   6.1 Assessment of bushfire prone area................................................................................................ 15
7 Assessment of the Bushfire Attack Level...............................................................................................15
   7.1 Assessment of the Bushfire Attack Level: Methodology..................................................................15
   7.2 Modelled bushfire attacks............................................................................................................... 16
   7.3 Assessment of fuel loads................................................................................................................ 16
   7.4 Forest Fire Danger Index................................................................................................................ 16
   7.5 Parameters used in the bushfire behaviour modelling....................................................................16
   7.6 Results of bushfire attack modelling...............................................................................................17
   7.7 Bushfire Attack Levels for each building elevation..........................................................................17
   7.8 Assessment of vegetation clearing.................................................................................................17
8 Bushfire risk management solutions and recommendations...............................................................18
   8.1 Bushfire hazard mitigation recommendations: Considerations.......................................................18
   8.2 Recommendations for the Noosa Plan Bushfire Overlay Code......................................................18
   8.3 Recommendations for Australian Standard AS3959.......................................................................18
   8.4 Recommendations for siting and landscaping................................................................................19
   8.5 Recommendations for lodgement points for burning debris............................................................19
   8.6 Recommendations for on-going management of buildings and landscaping..................................20
   8.7 Recommendations for Part E: Natural hazards of the Queensland State Planning Policy 2017.....20
9 References................................................................................................................................................ 21


Bushfire Risk Assessment and Management Plan for a house at 411 Black Pinch Rd, Cootharaba                                                   December 2021

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