Savanna burning is a method used to reduce fuel load in the fire season, typically in the Northern Territory, Northwestern WA and Northern Queensland.

Burning vegetation in the early dry season can reduce the risk of large and intense fires later in the season.

You create a new Savanna burning instance in the same way as any other enterprise, however because burning is a fixed point in time, the end date is not taken into consideration.

Burning info

After creating a new Burning instance, you will be shown a form where you can add more details:

• The class of vegetation that was burned
• The patchiness of the burned vegetation
• Whether the vegetation (as fuel for the fire) was coarse or fine
• Whether the burning happened early or late in the fire season
• Number of years since the last fire
• The area burned
• Whether burning took place in a high or low rainfall zone