Fire Origins - Current and Historical

dataset: FIRE_HISTORY_ORIGIN
All Current Fires are recorded by Fire Management and stored in the FIREWEB database as points. The location in EM Incidents is the location of where a bushfire was first reported either by 000 call (ESTA) or being called in by crews. This point is not the origin of a fire, but rather the first reported location of the fire. The data has been updated and is now current to the end of 2025/26 fire season.
 
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(2022)

Fire Origins - Current and Historical

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
 

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Identifiers and Keywords

ANZLIC Id
ANZVI0803004138 
Victorian Spatial Data Library (VSDL) Schema
FIRE:FIRE_HISTORY_ORIGIN 
Jurisdiction
Victoria 
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Structure
 

Resource Constraints

Use limitation
. For Fire Operation Management Planning 
Classification
Unclassified  
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY)
 

Other Dataset Details

Date ( Revision )
2022-02-07
Date ( Publication )
2025-09-29T14:18:36
Status
Completed  
Purpose
Depicts the origin of wildfires and their status as determined by Fire Management and recorded in FireWeb, based on the first reported location. This is not the actual fire origin location, but rather the firest reported fire location. The data has been updated and is now current to the end of 2025/26 fire season. 
Supplemental Information
Current Design Issues: Not Documented Data is an extract of Fire origins from EM incidents and older fires were from Fireweb. it is the first reported location of the fire and is not the actual fire origin. Related Documents: None 
Maintenance and update frequency
Irregular  
Maintenance date ( Publication )
2022-08-10T01:20:49
 

Spatial

Spatial representation type
Vector  
Description
General - Victoria 
Reference system identifier
4283

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Temporal

Begin date
unknown  
End date
now  
 

Resolution

Horizontal Accuracy
100m  
 

Quality

Attribute Quality
Attribute validation is undertaken within the FireWeb system. 
Positional Accuracy
Precision: 25 to 100 metres Determination: Estimate 
 

Lineage

Description
An automatic process is used to convert FIREWEB point data into SDE. 
Statement
Dataset Source: FIREWEB database Dataset Originality: Derived 
 

Attributes

Column Name Obligation Unique Data Type Data Length Data Precision Data Scale Reference Table Owner Reference Table Name Reference Table Code Column Name Short Column Name Definition
CAUSE O N VARCHAR2 255 CAUSE
FIRE_STARTED O N DATE 7 FIRE_START
EVENTID O N NUMBER 22 10 0 EVENTID
FIRE_DISTRICT O N VARCHAR2 50 FIRE_DIST
FIRE_NUMBER O N NUMBER 22 10 0 FIRE_NUM
FIRE_NAME O N VARCHAR2 255 FIRE_NAME
FIRE_STATUS O N VARCHAR2 50 FIRE_STAT
 

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Metadata identifier
urn:uuid / 4e35399b-e558-5d34-95a0-87a7f24a6096

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Dataset  
Date info ( Creation )
Date info ( Revision )
2025-10-06T12:43:20
Standard Name
ISO 19115-3:2018 
Profile Name
DELWP Profile 
Profile Version
Version 1 
Profile Date
2019-05-24  
 

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Unclassified  
 
 

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