Hazards Bushfire
Page last updated:13 June 2025
Geoscience Australia’s Community Safety team supports Australia’s ability to manage the impact of bushfires and helps inform decisions about risk.
We contribute to each stage of the emergency management cycle to help improve preparedness, response and recovery with our focus on contributing towards community safety.
Our role
We support emergency managers by providing access to that provides a national picture of potential bushfire locations, and the extent of bushfire impact.
Our near real-time is available through the Digital Atlas of Australia. It assists informed decision making on evacuation routes, resource allocation, and containment strategies during bushfire events, and helps in the planning, preparation, and development of response strategies for future bushfire events.
We provide data that helps over topography and different land cover types, which can be used to determine the speed of a fire front.
Our products, tools and data provide a better understanding of hazard vulnerabilities for all sectors to plan, prepare and reduce exposure to natural hazards improving preparedness now and into the future.
Learn more about our infrastructure collaborations geared towards improving the preparedness, response and recovery cycle of natural hazard events.
Emerging capabilities
We engage with different sectors to provide assessments and address new challenges as they emerge.
- Our Researchers are committed to growing our knowledge base to prepare for challenges of the future.
- We have a strong attendance at conferences and events to maintain awareness of the challenges faced by the community safety sector and keep up to date with latest science.
- Our open-source data is accessed by developers interested in solving operational challenges of reducing vulnerability and exposure to natural hazards.
- We continue to engage with different sectors to provide assessments and address new challenges as they emerge.
Top products
Detect areas producing high levels of infrared radiation, using our rolling archive of imagery and data.
Evaluate local wind speeds over topography and different land cover types, which can be used for applications like determining the speed of a fire front.
Find near real-time bushfire information, historical bushfire information and data regarding bushfire extents.
Case study Finding water to fight fire
Satellite data maps of Australian waterbodies are fuelling a more confident flightpath for Victoria’s Country Fire Authority.