Key topics

fire severity

Fire severity refers to the condition or magnitude of a fire, including temperature, speed and area.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
	Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour	Biblio	save (2.02 MB)	fire severity, forecasting, modelling
	Demographic effects of severe fire in montane shrublands on Tasmania’s Central Plateau	Biblio	save (3.69 MB)	environments, fire impacts, fire severity
	Victorian bushfire case studies - Black Summer final report	Biblio	save (55.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
	Savanna fire management and bushfire and natural hazard scenario planning for northern Australia: annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (2.82 MB)	fire, fire severity, fuel reduction
	Relicts at Risk: Impacts of the 2016 Tasmanian Fires on Pencil Pine (Athrotaxis Cupressoides)	Biblio	save (849.56 KB)	environments, fire impacts, fire severity
	Climatology of wind changes and elevated fire danger over Victoria, Australia	Biblio	save (1.67 MB)	fire severity, fire weather, severe weather
	Improving Fire Behaviour Data Obtained from Wildfires	Biblio		emergency management, fire impacts, fire severity
	Savanna fire management and bushfire and natural hazard scenario planning for northern Australia annual project report part two: managing flammable high biomass grassy weeds	Biblio		fire severity, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
	Using pre- and post-fire LiDAR to assess the severity of the 2019 Tasmanian bushfires	Biblio	save (10 MB)	environments, fire impacts, fire severity
	Effect of prescribed burning on wildfire severity - a landscape case study from the 2003 fires in Victoria	Biblio	save (807.87 KB)	fire severity, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
	Pyroconvective interactions and dynamic fire propagation	Biblio	save (1.14 MB)	fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
	Evolution of an extreme Pyrocumulonimbus-driven wildfire event in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio	save (844.71 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
	Natural hazards in Australia: extreme bushfire	Biblio		fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
	Understanding post-fire fuel dynamics using burnt permanent forest plots	Biblio	save (2.54 MB)	environments, fire impacts, fire severity
	Quantification of inter-regional differences in risk mitigation from prescribed burning across multiple management values	Biblio		emergency management, fire impacts, fire severity
	Spotfire utilisation project: implementation of the VLS filter	Biblio	save (2.93 MB)	fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
	Developing a wildfire surveillance algorithm for geostationary satellites	Biblio	save (53.72 MB)	fire severity, remote sensing
	Internal pressures in a full-scale test enclosure with windward wall openings	Biblio		fire severity, severe weather
	Community preparedness and responses to the 2017 New South Wales bushfires	Biblio	save (6.54 MB)	communication, fire severity, warnings
	From hectares to tailor-made solutions for risk mitigation: systems to deliver effective prescribed burning across Australian ecosystems: Annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (712.94 KB)	fire severity, mitigation, prescribed burning
	Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling: ACCESS-Fire – annual report 2019-2020	Biblio	save (2.21 MB)	fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
	Fire spread prediction across fuel types: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (953.12 KB)	fire impacts, fire severity, forecasting
	Yanchep bushfire analysis – Black Summer final report	Biblio	save (1.57 MB)	fire severity, land management, risk management
	Determination of Firebrand Characteristics Using Thermal Videos	Biblio	save (3.51 MB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
	Determining the minimum sampling frequency for ground measurements of burn severity	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
	Methods for background temperature estimation in the context of active fire detection	Biblio	save (22.24 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
	Understanding post-fire fuel dynamics using burnt permanent forest plots	Biblio	save (3.27 MB)	environments, fire impacts, fire severity
11 Oct 2016	PhD ideas from international conferences	Blog		fire, fire severity, fire weather
06 Dec 2019	12 simple ways you can reduce bushfire risk to older homes	Blog		emergency management, fire impacts, fire severity
29 Jan 2021	How heatwaves and drought combine to produce the perfect firestorm	Blog		fire, fire severity, fire weather
23 Aug 2019	Our new global plant water status database may prevent you from needing to fieldwork. What will you miss?	Blog		emergency management, fire, fire severity
26 Feb 2016	Out and about for Top End science	Blog		fire impacts, fire severity, Northern Australia
07 May 2015	Next generation education	Blog		communication, education, fire severity
17 Aug 2017	Portugal experience after devastating fires	Blog		fire severity, fire weather, modelling
14 Oct 2016	Still busy at the CRC	Blog		emergency management, fire severity, prescribed burning
19 Nov 2019	A long fire season in store	Blog		climate change, fire, fire severity
30 Mar 2021	A staggering 1.8 million hectares burned in ‘high-severity’ fires during Australia’s Black Summer	Blog		climate change, fire impacts, fire severity
11 Nov 2016	Firestorms: the bushfire/thunderstorm hybrids we urgently need to understand	News		fire, fire severity, fire weather
07 Oct 2014	Mercury rising replay available	News		communities, fire severity, fire weather
29 Mar 2018	Predicting fire thunderstorms	News		fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather