This is the Supporting information for Indicator 3.1b, published October 2024. 

This indicator is used to provide an understanding of the impact of fire on forests through the reporting of planned and unplanned fire. Fire is an important part of many forest ecosystems in Australia and may have either positive or negative impacts on forest health and vitality.

This is the Key information for Indicator 3.1b, published October 2024.

Publication date: 18 December 2020

The ABARES report Regional forest agreements: compilation of reservation and resource availability outcomes presents a compilation of data on changes in reserves areas and forest resource availability in RFA regions, both at their signing and in the most recent data.

Publication date: 03 December 2020.

This ABARES technical report presents a schema to allow for separate reporting of each of Indigenous ownership of land or forest, Indigenous management or co-management of land or forest, and land or forest over which Indigenous peoples and communities have other special rights.

Australia's ten Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) are long-term agreements for the sustainable management and conservation of Australia's forests. There are 10 RFAs across New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia, signed between 1997 and 2001 as 20-year agreements between Australian and state governments. The RFAs in New South Wales, Tasmania and Western Australia have since been extended as 20-year rolling agreements, and the Victorian RFAs have been extended until 2030.

Australia's forests and forestry glossary is available as a searchable web version and an accessible PDF [6.9MB]. 

This visualisation of Australia's native forest data brings together data from three key national datasets used to prepare Australia's State of the Forests Report 2018 and the

This page presents information and links to national forest fire area data for 2016-17 to 2020-21, presents data for the 2019-20 summer bushfire season in southern and eastern Australia, and provides links to national forest fire area data for 2011-16.

National forest fire area data for 2016-17 to 2020-21

Over the period 2016-17 to 2020-21:

Methods used to develop these, and current datasets, may differ due to improvements in technology and methodology.