Fig 1.
Location of study area and housing density, housing units/km2 in relation to local government areas.
Source: generated from data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2011 Census of Population and Housing. Developed using Administrative Boundaries produced by PSMA Australia Limited licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).
Table 1.
Description of cause categories used for wildfire ignitions in the 12 year period.
Table 2.
The number of wildfires that destroyed houses and the number of houses destroyed from 1951 to 2015 by ignition cause.
Fig 2.
The number of wildfires that destroyed houses from 1951 to 2015 by local government area.
Developed using Administrative Boundaries produced by PSMA Australia Limited licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).
Fig 3.
The number of houses destroyed by wildfires from 1951 to 2015 by local government area.
Developed using Administrative Boundaries produced by PSMA Australia Limited licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).
Table 3.
The number of wildfires that destroyed houses from 1951 to 2015 classified by ignition cause and fire size (ha).
Table 4.
The number of wildfires that destroyed houses from 1951 to 2015 classified by ignition cause and the number of days from fire ignition until the first house was destroyed.
Fig 4.
Box plots for ignition causes of wildfires that destroyed houses and wildfires where no houses were destroyed for the 12 years with complementary data for fire weather elements.
Forest Fire Danger Index (FFDI), hd = wildfires that destroyed houses, nhd = wildfires where no houses were destroyed, All = all ignition causes including undetermined ignitions.
Fig 5.
Cumulative % distribution of wildfires that destroyed houses and wildfires where no houses were destroyed by ignition cause for the 12 years with complementary data for fire weather elements.
Forest Fire Danger Index (FFDI), dotted line = wildfires that destroyed houses, solid lines = wildfires where no houses were destroyed, All = all ignition causes including undetermined ignitions
Fig 6.
The proportion of wildfires that destroyed houses (n = 58) and wildfires where no houses were destroyed (n = 87055) by known cause for the 12 years with complementary data.