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Historical Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) - Pilliga Region

Created 24/06/2025

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, DPE Remote Sensing & Regulatory Mapping team has developed a semi-automated approach to mapping fire extent and severity through a machine learning framework based on satellite imagery. The method uses 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). Here we provide historical severity mapping for the Pilliga region from 1989/90 to 2015/16, which is based on Landsat satellite imagery. From 2016/17 to the current fire year, this region is covered in the statewide FESM data, which is based on Sentinel 2 satellite imagery.

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Title Historical Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) - Pilliga Region
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/b34b9818-a8d9-497f-8dde-c25481d57f2f
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 01/07/1989 - 06/03/2016
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Historical Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) - Pilliga Region". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-historical-fire-extent-and-severity-mapping-fesm-pilliga-region