While the safest option is always to leave high risk areas early on days of high fire risk, a well designed garden can help reduce the risk of house loss in a bushfire. You also need to prepare a Bushfire Survival Plan, have adequate water and access as well as house construction and maintenance.
Landscaping for Bushfire will be a useful resource for CFA staff when talking to residents, industry or other government agencies about how to design a garden to ensure an effective defendable space. A copy has been sent to every brigade.
It will be of interest to anyone working with the community to reduce bushfire risk around homes, and is particularly relevant to those working in the building and planning environment such as landscape gardeners, town planners, architects and builders.
The publication was developed in conjunction with a team of industry experts and is accompanied by an easy-to-use online plant selection key – the first of its kind in
This information can be used when preparing landscape plans for new houses in the Bushfire Management Overlay as well as informing garden design when retrofitting or redesigning existing gardens.
Landscaping for Bushfire forms part of CFA’s response to Recommendation 44 of the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission.
Visit www.cfa.vic.gov.au/plants for more information.
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