Appendix F - bushfire attack level assessment report · MCU25/0022

3.3      Fuel Accumulation Assessment – Forest south west




Figure 5. Fuel Accumulation Assessment – Forest south west
 Fuel hazard estimate                                     Assessment according to Hines et al 2010
 Date: 15th February 2023
 Layer                             Rating      Description / Comments                                     Equivalent fuel
                                                                                                          load
                                                                                                          t/ha
 Surface and near surface        Moderate      Moderate litter bed 20mm with moderate NS fuels as               10 - 11
                                               Urochloa sp shaded out. Edge effect Panicum sp.
 Elevated                           High       Canopy recruiters, Lantana sp, Acacia spp, Syncarpia sp.          3-4
                                               Brush against vegetation most of the time.
 Bark                               Low        Barks smooth or tightly held - low bark hazard                       0
                                               Camphorum sp, Acacia spp.
 Overall rating                     High                                                                      13 - 15t/ha

Table 1. Fuel Assessment - Forest south west

Vegetation to the south west is representative of mapped Regional Ecosystem (RE) 12.11.3, Vegetation
Hazard Class 9.2, particularly as far as available fuel load is concerned. The default total available fuel load
values attributed by State Government to Vegetation Hazard Class 9.3 is 17.2t/ha, 14.9t/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.




Report compiled by Bushfire Risk Reducers for Mr A. Wittaker, February 2023                               Page 10