Fire Management Zones

dataset: FIREFMZ
This layer represents polygon coverage of Fire Management Zones across the entire State of Victoria, generally on public land. The Fire Management Zone is an area of land which provides a framework for future fuel management programs and whether fire is suitable for managing public land to provide asset protection, bushfire moderation, landscape management or planned burn exclusion. Dataset last updated 22 April 2026 with changes within the Castlemaine Workcentre in the Loddon Mallee region after a review conducted by Phil Brien. Dataset updated 20 October 2023 with changes in the Port Phillip region supplied by Frazer Wilson. Dataset updated 10 September 2021 with changes to regional zoning in the Hume Region (per K.Nolan). Dataset updated 01 July 2020 with changes to regional zoning from the statewide Strategic Bushfire Management Planning process 2017-2019. Dataset updated 20 April 2017 with changes from WCBRL (per A Boak). Dataset updated 30 Jan 2017 with changes from ECBRL (per F Wilson). Dataset updated 19 August 2016 with changes from MMGBRL (per D Prior).
 
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(2021)

Fire Management Zones

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action

Description

Title
Fire Management Zones 
Alternate title
FIREFMZ 
Purpose
The major intent of this layer is to provide a reference for location of fire management zones and to support generation of information products to support fuel management activities as per the Code of Practice for Fire Management on Public Land (2012). The layer will be widely utilised by DELWP Forest and Fire Planning teams and Fuel Management teams as the principle source of information of Fire Management Zones. 
Credit
Land and fire Services GIS staff 
Supplemental Information
Relationship to other Datasets: Boundaries of public land have been aquired from PLM25 Current Design Issues: The major intent of this layer is to provide a reference for location of fire management zones and to support generation of information products to support fuel management activities as per the Code of Practice for Fire Management on Public Land (2012). This layer will assist in the production of the joint fuel management plan. Related Documents: None Report to the DDRG 
Status
On going 
 
 

Spatial

Horizontal Accuracy
100m 
Code
4283 
 
 

Maintenance

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed 
 
 

Contacts

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Keywords

Topic category
  • Environment
 
 

Resource Constraints

Use limitation
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, Copyright and Attribution, Terms of Use - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Not Documented Planning 
Classification
Unclassified 
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY)
 
 

Lineage

Statement
Dataset Source: Regional Forest and Fire Planning teams Dataset Originality: Primary 
Description
Collection Method: Digitised from a combination of 25k and 100k features 
 
 

Metadata Constraints Metadata Constraints

Classification
Unclassified 
 
 

Quality

Attribute Quality
Comments
95% 
 
Positional Accuracy
Comments
Precision:50m - 300m Determination:Base features registered at 1:100000 with map errors up to 3mm which translates to 300m on ground 
 
Conceptual Consistency
Missing Data
Excess Data
 
 

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