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Designated Bushfire Prone Area (BPA)

Created 27/06/2025

Updated 17/11/2025

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Polygon features identify designated Bushfire Prone Areas where specific bushfire building construction requirements apply. The municipal areas of Melbourne, Yarra, Maribyrnong, Moonee Valley, Darebin, Boroondara, Stonnington, Glen Eira, Moreland, Port Phillip and Bayside do not have any designated bushfire prone areas. The original boundaries were gazetted on 7 Sep 2011. Changes to the boundaries have been gazetted on 25 Oct 2012, 8 Oct 2013, 30 Dec 2013, 3 June 2014, 22 Oct 2014, 19 August 2015, 21 April 2016, 18 October 2016, 02 June 2017, 06 November 2017, 16 May 2018, 16 Oct 2018, 4 Apr 2019, 10 Sep 2019, 24 March 2020, 7 September 2020, 25 January 2021, 6 July 2021, 18 March 2022, 17 August 2022, 20 April 2023, 15 December 2023, 10 September 2024, 10 July 2025.

Bushfire prone areas (BPA) of Victoria review 24, gazetted 10 July 2025. The BPA map depicts locations where new buildings, alterations and/or additions must meet the ‘bushfire prone area’ requirements of the National Construction Code and a minimum Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) 12.5 construction standard (Section 192A Building Act 1993 – Bushfire Prone Areas determination, and construction requirements of the Building Regulations 2018).

Refer to the following web links for information and Interactive Map. https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/bushfire-protection/building-in-bushfire-prone-areas

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Field Value
Title Designated Bushfire Prone Area (BPA)
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/e94607e7-61fa-49a0-9c2d-9190019bd6e0
Remote Last Updated 25/10/2025
Contact Point
Department of Transport and Planning
contact@dpc.vic.gov.au
Reference Period 09/07/2025
Geospatial Coverage Victoria
Data Portal Victoria Government

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This dataset was originally found on Victoria Government "Designated Bushfire Prone Area (BPA)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/designated-bushfire-prone-area-bpa