From Victoria Government
JSON format icon JSON RDF format icon RDF ISO19115-3 XML

DE 2025-2026 Schools and early childhood services at risk of grassfire - Category 4 - February 2026

Created 15/09/2025

Updated 02/03/2026

JSON format icon JSON RDF format icon RDF ISO19115-3 XML

Information on the schools and early childhood services at risk of grassfire - Category 4 List, including a list of all schools, kindergartens and early childhood services.

Inclusion on this list is a trigger for the school, kindergarten or early childhood service to pre-emptively close on days forecast 'Catastrophic' in their fire weather district.

Schools, kindergartens and early childhood services at greater fire risk (those assessed to be in fire risk categories 0, 1, 2 and 3) are listed on the department’s Bushfire At-Risk Register (BARR).

https://www.vic.gov.au/bushfire-risk-register-barr

If you have queries relating to the register, please email emergency.management@education.vic.gov.au.

You can read our full school bushfire and grassfire preparedness policy for more information.

https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/bushfire-and-grassfire-preparedness/policy

You can also find more information regarding early childhood services and their obligations for managing bushfire and grassfire risks in early childhood services and emergency management in early childhood services more generally.

https://www.vic.gov.au/managing-bushfire-grassfire-risks-early-childhood-services https://www.vic.gov.au/emergency-management-early-childhood-services

The register was updated on 3 February 2026.

You can search by facility name, local government area or fire weather district by downloading a copy of the Category 4 List.

Files and APIs

Tags

Additional Info

Field Value
Title DE 2025-2026 Schools and early childhood services at risk of grassfire - Category 4 - February 2026
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/28ed5945-18b8-4b09-a1c1-70135c5f5fd1
Remote Last Updated 07/02/2026
Contact Point
Security and Emergency Management Division
contact@dpc.vic.gov.au
Reference Period 06/02/2026
Geospatial Coverage Victoria
Data Portal Victoria Government

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Victoria Government "DE 2025-2026 Schools and early childhood services at risk of grassfire - Category 4 - February 2026". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/de-2025-2026-schools-and-early-childhood-services-at-risk-of-grassfire-category-4-july-2025