The Prescribed Burning Atlas: a new system to plan effective prescribed burns

The Prescribed Burning Atlas is a new tool, backed by research, that will assist fire and land management agencies by presenting cost-effective options for their tailored prescribed burning strategies.

Accessible at https://prescribedburnatlas.science, the Atlas incorporates almost one million prescribed burning simulations across varied Australian landscapes and under different weather conditions, to explore the effects of different rates and locations of prescribed burning treatments on risk reduction and subsequent bushfire behaviour. 

Hazard Note 87 presents the research behind the Atlas, from the University of Wollongong, the University of Melbourne and Western Sydney University. Researchers investigated the implementation of tailor-made prescribed burning strategies to suit the biophysical, climatic and human context of different bioregions, both now and in the future using climate change projections. 

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