Bushfire Management Report

                         Ecological Natural Area Management


8.4    Recommendations for siting and landscaping
It is recommended that:the building to have a bushfire fuel free zone around the house. The fuel
free zone to have no overhanging tree branches that can:
     • Break off in the high winds associated with bushfire weather and damage property or cause
          injury to residents or fire fighting personnel
     • Be a lodgement point for wind blown burning debris from the fire front which can then drop
          burning debris onto the buildings
It is further recommended that landscaping around the building such as planting low, fire resistant
shrubs or building permanent barriers such as low stone or masonry walls to:
     • Create barriers which slow down and cool the fire front.
Such methodologies help to protect buildings from possible attack by burning debris, heat radiation
and direct flame contact. See Figure 10 below for an example of the creation of a buffer zone.

8.5    Recommendations for lodgement points for burning debris
The Queensland Fire and Rescue Service recommend that buildings be constructed with a
minimum of lodgement points for burning debris.




Figure 13: Methodologies for minimising the lodgement points for burning debris around the house
(Source: Queensland Government, 2000)




Bushfire Risk Assessment and Management Plan for a house at 26 Little Springs Lane, Lake MacDonald   February 2021

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