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Bushfire Management Plan Lot 27 RP 89506

 

3. Potential Bushfire Hazard Assessment

It is generally accepted that areas in South Eastern Queensland do not experience the
sustained fire weather and wildfires on the catastrophe scale which are a regular feature of
areas in Victoria, South Australia and sometimes in New South Wales.

Some bushfires do occur in Queensland in most years and are generally of low to
moderate intensity. However, periodically (about every 10-12 years) more intensive fires

occur when prolonged dry spells and extreme weather, combine with a source of ignition,
and fuel, to deliver these potentially destructive events.

To allow planners and fire services to deal with this potential it is necessary to evaluate the
hazards (physical attributes) over areas to allow some risk assessment and then formulate
mitigating activities to reduce the likelihood of loss of property and life to a minimum.

The physical attributes of a site that can be measured and ranked to give some relative
comparison from site to site include:

e Topography — slope and aspect
e Vegetation Type
e Fire History

Noosa Shire Council in their working document “Bushfire Hazard Planning in Noosa Shire”
(Summers 1995) adopted the following rating system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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