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Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM)

Created 14/11/2025

Updated 14/11/2025

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Fire severity is a metric of the loss of biomass caused by fire. In collaboration with the NSW Rural Fire Service, DCCEEW Remote Sensing & Regulatory Mapping team has developed a semi-automated approach to mapping fire extent and severity through a machine learning framework based on sentinel 2 satellite imagery. The statewide severity map has standardised classes to allow comparison of different fires across the landscape. The FESM severity classes include: unburnt, low severity (burnt understory, unburnt canopy), moderate severity (partial canopy scorch), high severity (complete canopy scorch, partial canopy consumption), extreme (full canopy consumption).

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Title Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM)
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/d27e6ec0-569b-479d-a246-6840723d4815
Remote Last Updated 23/10/2025
Contact Point
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
?datansw@customerservice.nsw.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/2017
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-fire-extent-and-severity-mapping-fesm1

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