Gippsland also boasts many iconic landscapes features, including the Gippsland Lakes, Wilsons Promontory and the Snowy River. Environmental data, including the Victorian Biodiversity Atlas, are an important source of information for fuel management planning. These natural resources support industries like agriculture, forestry, power generation and tourism.
Protecting these natural resources and industries from bushfire is important for the livelihoods of many Gippsland residents in both large and small towns.
Critical infrastructure in Gippsland provides residents and other Victorian communities with essential services, like energy production and water storage. Our critical infrastructure also includes major roads, such as the Princes Highway - a vital link for transporting goods and services within and beyond Gippsland.
This section contains information regarding past bushfires which some readers may find upsetting. Click to skip ahead to bushfire risk in our region or our fuel management strategy. Gippsland has a long history of large bushfires. On the worst fire-weather days, hot north-westerly winds cause bushfires to grow rapidly, pushing the fire-front downwind. A wind-change can then trigger a sudden shift in fire behaviour, with the entire flank of the fire becoming a much larger fire-front.
In February , lightning and hot dry weather caused a series of fires to start across Gippsland. The largest fire started near Valencia Creek and spread quickly over following days, joining with other fires and impacting towns such as Coongulla, Maffra, Newry, Boisdale and Briagolong. By mid-March, when rain halted the fire, it had burnt houses and farms for almost km, reaching Sarsfield, Tambo Upper, Bruthen and Tambo Crossing. A recent community engagement project reconstructed this event from local knowledge and archival records.
By late , East Gippsland had experienced its driest three-year period on record, and multiple bushfires were burning across the landscape. By the end of December the bushfires had burnt more than 30, hectares of forest in Gippsland, and lightning strikes had caused a number of new fires across the Victorian alps.
The wind change that followed pushed multiple fire fronts to the north-east. Many communities were isolated, hundreds of homes were lost, and thousands of kilometres of roads were blocked by fallen trees. Thousands of emergency workers and volunteers worked for months to contain fires and reopen access roads, until the fires were brought under control in March.
This map shows the risk of house loss in the Gippsland region. It compares where houses could be destroyed by bushfire across the region. Different shades represent different levels of risk. As the shades progress from yellow through red and purple, more and more houses are potentially destroyed.
The purple areas have the highest risk of house loss. More houses could potentially be destroyed by bushfire in these areas than in any other areas in this region. Computer simulations are used to help us estimate houses lost from bushfires.
The simulations measure how damaging bushfires could be in different locations. They assume that the fuels in the landscape have increased to the highest level. This helps us plan where, how often and how much fuel management we do to reduce risks to communities over years, or even decades.
This map does not reflect any recent bushfires or activities that could change the risk in the region. Importantly, this map shows where there is potential for a bushfire to destroy more houses compared to other parts of the region.
It does not show risk to individual houses. Large areas of forest can allow fires to become large and intense before they impact on communities. Other, smaller settlements near forests may be equally likely to be impacted by bushfire, but have fewer houses and people at risk. The larger population centres in Gippsland are typically surrounded by cleared farmland, including Warragul, Leongatha, the Latrobe Valley, Bairnsdale and Sale.
Dangerous grass fires can still occur in such areas, but are less likely to destroy large numbers of houses. By understanding what communities care about, where bushfires have happened before and analysing what areas in the Gippsland region are most at risk, we can create a strategy.
This strategy tells agencies where, how much and how often to conduct fuel management activities to reduce bushfire risk. In each of these zones we manage fuels differently in terms of the frequency and intensity of fuel management activities like planned burning.
Where we conduct fuel management each year is determined by a range of factors, including fuel loads and weather conditions, such as rainfall. Explore now. Trips and Itineraries. Destinations near Gippsland. Phillip Island. Croajingolong National Park.
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Arts and culture Art galleries, museums and restaurants available throughout the year, and Gippsland hosts a variety of major festivals including the Creative Gippsland Arts Festival, Maffra Mardi Gras, and music festivals across the region including in Boolarra, Inverloch, Paynesville. Ageing population The RDV information portal has more detailed data and statistics on the Gippsland Region and regional Victoria more broadly.
Gippsland Regional Partnership The Gippsland Regional Partnership is one of nine Partnerships across the state, established by the Victorian Government, recognising that local communities are in the best position to understand the challenges and opportunities faced by their region. Regional Development Australia RDA Gippsland The RDA Gippsland committee drives economic development by identifying and advocating for regional priorities and projects that leverage our comparative strengths.
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