Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) 2023/24

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Fire severity is a metric of the loss of biomass caused by fire. In collaboration with the NSW Rural Fire Service, DCCEEW Remote Sensing & Regulatory Mapping team has developed a semi-automated approach to mapping fire extent and severity through a machine learning framework based on sentinel 2 satellite imagery. The statewide severity map has standardised classes to allow comparison of different fires across the landscape. The FESM severity classes include: unburnt, extent only (grass fires), low severity (burnt understory, unburnt canopy), moderate severity (partial canopy scorch), high severity (complete canopy scorch, partial canopy consumption), extreme (full canopy consumption).

This dataset represents the 2023/24 fire year including all wildfires >10ha with a fire start date between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024.

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Title Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) 2023/24
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Licence cc-by
Data Status
Update Frequency notPlanned
Landing Page https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/fc5a38c5-a3aa-486b-9d6d-4fe304ab1f05
Date Published 2024-09-03
Date Updated 2024-09-03
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Temporal Coverage 2023-07-01 - 2024-06-30
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Data Portal Data.NSW
Publisher/Agency NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water