Appendix B - Bushfire Management Plan

3.3      Fuel Accumulation Assessment – Surrounding forest community




Figure 5. Fuel Accumulation Assessment – Surrounding Forest Community
 Fuel hazard estimate                                       Assessment according to Hines et al 2010
 Date: 20th July 2021
 Layer                              Rating      Description / Comments                                   Equivalent fuel
                                                                                                         load
                                                                                                         t/ha
 Surface and near surface         Moderate      Moderate litter bed 10 - 20mm (high rate of                     8-9
                                                decomposition and breakdown) with moderate NS fuels
                                                as Lomandra sp and low shrubs.
 Elevated                          Very High    Canopy recruiters, Acacia sp, Alphitonia sp and vines.             5
                                                Brush against vegetation most of the time.
 Bark                                High       Ribbon barks (E.tereticornis) Otherwise lower bark                 2
                                                hazard L.confertus, Acacia sp, C.intermedia.
 Overall rating                    Very High                                                                 15 - 16t/ha

Table 1. Fuel Assessment - Surrounding Forest Community

The vegetation community present is a combination of mapped Regional Ecosystem 12.15.3 and 12.5.6. The
default total available fuel load values attributed by State Government to Vegetation Hazard Class 9.1 is
24.2t/ha, 21t/ha of which is surface and near surface fuel, and these values have been applied to site specific
fire modelling as required under Method 2 of AS3959-2018, in Section 6.3 of this Assessment. Note that these
fuel loads are greater than those assessed, although prolonged dry could be expected to cause leaf fall and an
increase in surface fuel loads.

Report compiled by Bushfire Risk Reducers for The Planning Place, July 2021                              Page 10