- Title:
-
Forest Fire Statistics 1974 to 1984
- Date:
- October 1984
- Organisations
- DSE
- Authors:
- B. Rees
- Location:
- Victoria, VIC, Australia
Overview
These data are on computer files within the Government Computing Service Burroughs system. The data were analysed using both the facilities available on SPSS and specially written Fortran programs.Only fires that originated in, or burnt into, the Fire Protected Area (FPA) were included (i.e. fires with Land Status codes 1to 8), and the areas burnt refer only to areas burnt within the FPA. The results will differ slightly from those which would be obtained from analysis of fire statistics presented in Annual Reports of the Forests Commission Victoria (FCV) for the period. Statistics in the 1974/75 report include information on all fires attended by the FCV inside or outside the FPA.
In some instances complete information could not be obtained and therefore not all fires on which each analysis was based are shown in the table heading. The divisions refered to in the tables are those used by the FCV.
