UNSW Bushfire

Advancing global knowledge in bushfire research and education.

UNSW Bushfire is at the forefront of bushfire research in Australia and globally, with research focus in the areas of dynamic fire propagation, extreme fire development, severe fire weather events, fire behaviour modelling, ember spread, bushfire risk at the wildland-urban interface, and more.

UNSW Bushfire's mission is to improve understanding of bushfire and associated processes, their relation to firefighter and community safety and sustainable environmental outcomes.

We do this by:

Conducting fundamental and applied research into bushfire drivers, behaviour and propagation.
Developing scientifically rigorous models that integrate with fire safety and bushfire risk management systems.

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Our people

Bringing together experts across a range of fields, UNSW Bushfire is developing scientifically rigorous models to integrate with fire safety and risk management systems, as well as conducting fundamental and applied research into bushfire behaviour and propagation.

Bushfire explainers

A series of short articles that take complex and scientific topics and explain them in simple terms. These explainers assist to describe the different areas of our research at UNSW Bushfire.

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With your collaboration and support, UNSW Bushfire will literally fight fire with maths, generating vital new knowledge and innovations to mitigate the increasing Australian and global threat of extreme fire behaviour.

Our research

UNSW Bushfire is driving breakthroughs in fundamental and applied research into bushfire behaviour and propagation, including coupled/dynamic effects. We're developing scientifically rigorous models that integrate with fire safety and risk management systems.