NPWS Fire History - Wildfires and Prescribed Burns

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

FireHistory is a feature class that holds final fire boundaries for every year for which there is data. Within the feature class are two subtypes Wildfire (FireType 1) and Prescribed Burn (FireType 2). The polygons are mutually exclusive within each year and they often extend outside NPWS Estate. Fire history is captured by all regions within NPWS. At times data captured by the Rural Fire Service (RFS) and Forestry Corporation NSW are imported into this GDB also. The data are now stored centrally in ArcSDE. Enhance Bushfire Management Program (EBMP) Technical Officers collate, update and amend branch data using versions from ArcSDE.

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field	Value
Title	NPWS Fire History - Wildfires and Prescribed Burns
Type
Language
Licence	cc-by
Data Status
Update Frequency	monthly
Landing Page	https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/3ccf63aa-d17d-4094-9c6a-343a323dd4a5
Date Published	2022-12-05
Date Updated	2025-07-08
Contact Point
Temporal Coverage	1920-01-01 - 2025-07-07
Geospatial Coverage	{"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[154.0, -38.0], [154.0, -28.0], [141.0, -28.0], [141.0, -38.0], [154.0, -38.0]]]}
Jurisdiction
Data Portal	Data.NSW
Publisher/Agency	NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water