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Are you Bushfire Ready?

Is your property prepared? Do you have a plan?

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Do you live or own a property in one of these communities?

  • Margate

    Residents of Margate join the online discussion on how to make your community more safe from bushfires.

    Find out more here 

  • Dodges Ferry

    Residents of Dodges Ferry find out more about being bushfire-ready.

    Find out more here 

  • West Coast

    Do you live on the West Coast and want to know more about being bushfire-ready?

    Find out more here 

  • Binalong Bay

    Property owners in the Binalong Bay area are invited to get bushfire-ready.

    Find out more here 

  • Karoola/Turners Marsh

    Residents of Karoola and Turners Marsh - are you bushfire-ready? Join the program to become and Bushfire-Ready Neighbourhood.

    Find out more here 

  • Other Tasmanian Communities

    Prepare yourself, your family and your property for bushfire.

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Project Timeline

  • Timeline item 1 - complete

    June - July 2020 - Community selection

    BRN Round 4 Communities

  • Timeline item 2 - complete

    August 2020 - Pre-engagement survey

  • Timeline item 3 - complete

    September 2020 - Pre-engagement survey results published

  • Timeline item 4 - active

    August 2020 - March 2023 Engagement with target areas

    During 2020 to 2023 a variety of activities, conversations and resources will be developed with your help for a more bushfire-ready community.

    Activity information will be provided on this site.

  • Timeline item 5 - incomplete

    April 2023 - Evaluation phase

How prepared is your community?

  • What percentage of households are prepared for a bushfire?
  • How many people have a Bushfire Plan?
  • Why have people completed a Bushfire Plan?
  • Why have people not completed a Bushfire Plan?
  • Who will leave early and who will stay and defend?

How prepared is your community?

  • What percentage of households are prepared for a bushfire?

  • Overall household bushfire preparedness (based on the range of indicator statements) is 76%, with varying levels of preparedness across the selected indicators and communities.

  • How many people have a Bushfire Plan?

  • Close to 3 in 4 households reported having a household bushfire survival plan. Of this group, most (82%) had discussed their plan with other family/household members. Just 18% of this group (14% of the total survey sample or close to 1 in 7 households) reported having a written Bushfire Plan for their household.

  • Why have people completed a Bushfire Plan?

  • Reasons for developing a Bushfire Plan are likely to relate to previous bushfire experience in the area, available Tasmania Fire Service information and other information including via schools, awareness of bushfire events elsewhere and living in a perceived bushfire risk area.

  • Why have people not completed a Bushfire Plan?

  • Reasons for not developing a household Bushfire Plan include living in a perceived non bushfire risk area, the expectation to leave early in a major bushfire event (and the erroneous belief that a plan is therefore not required), a perceived lack of urgency to do so or ‘just haven’t got around to it’.

  • Who will leave early and who will stay and defend?

  • A majority of responding households (62%) reported that they would most likely leave their home early in the event of a major bushfire situation, with just 22% (around 1 in 5 households) indicating they would expect to stay and defend their home during a major bushfire event.

Useful bushfire websites

  • Current Tasmania bushfire alerts
  • Complete you own plan using an online tool
  • Fire safety publications

Useful bushfire websites

  • Current Tasmania bushfire alerts
  • Complete you own plan using an online tool
  • Fire safety publications
  • Bushfire property preparation videos
  • '67 Black Tuesday bushfires storymap
Your work is very valuable to our communities and as mentioned last night the message is getting through to land owners who are being very pro-active in preparing their properties
‐ Program participant Round 3 2018-2020

The Tasmania Fire Service acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which we live and work as the first people of this country.

We recognise the deep history and culture of this land.

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