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Content Title	NSW Fire History
Content Type	Hosted Feature Layer
Description	NSW Fire History dataset in AFAC schema
Initial Publication Date	04/09/2024
Data Currency	28/09/2024
Data Update Frequency	Weekly
Content Source	API
File Type	Map Feature Service
Attribution	fire_id, fire_name, ignition_date, capture_date, extinguish_date, fire_type, ignition_cause, capt_method, area_ha, perim_km, state, agency, globalid
Data Theme, Classification or Relationship to other Datasets	The goal of the dataset is to produce a quality assured product with fire extents compared against available imagery. Since the 2000's data has been sourced from internal RFS systems including ICON, BRIMS and GUARDIAN flowing into internal edit and production fire history datasets. This publicly available 'NSW FIre History' dataset is published complying to the AFAC Fire History Guideline, Fire history data dictionary (afac.com.au). The dataset is also used in the National Historical Bushfire Boundaries \| Digital Atlas of Australia.
Accuracy	Fire Extents vary from 10m to 100m.
Spatial Reference System (dataset)	GDA94
Spatial Reference System (web service)	Other
WGS84 Equivalent To	GDA94
Spatial Extent	[141.00014027900016, -37.50517169608843], [153.6325547710001, -28.179468392213952]
Content Lineage	Data is sourced from mapping of wildfires and hazard reductions by various NSW Local and State Government Agencies. From 2006 data came from NSW RFS ICON system for Wildfires. Hazard Reduction Burns came from BRIMS system and from 2018 GUARDIAN system. Data prior was sourced from Bush Fire Management Committee members, Catchment Authority, Dept of Lands, Fire & Rescue NSW, Forest Corporation of NSW, NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service, Parks Australia, Rural Fire Service, State Emergency Service
Data Classification	Unclassified
Data Access Policy	Shared
Data Quality	Varied
Terms and Conditions	Creative Common
Standard and Specification	Set out in the NSW Fire History Data Access and Management Plan and the https://www.afac.com.au/insight/doctrine/article/current/fire-history-data-dictionary
Data Custodian	NSW Rural Fire Service
Point of Contact	Supervisor Data and Spatial
Data Aggregator	NSW Rural Fire Service, Geoscience Australia
Data Distributor	NSW Rural Fire Service
Additional Supporting Information	NSW Fire History Data Access and Management Plan
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NSW Fire History