Lyneham Fire Risk

The city of Canberra is known as Australia’s Bush Capital. Recent urban planning approaches consistently demonstrate serious shortcomings in predicting and responding to bushfire risks (Buxton, et al 2010). In this fieldwork in the Canberra suburb of Lyneham a systematic approach using field observations, demographic statistics and other methods, helped understand plausible risks and consider the suburb's geographical characteristics as a contribution to understanding local risk.
Figure 3, the map summary, displayed the route taken and the direction of travel. It can clearly be seen that the elevation of the start point is approximately 640m elevation compared to approximately 590m at the pick up point. The slope and degree of slope of an area is an important factor when determining fire risk (Ellis, 2004), therefore as there is approximately a 50m slope at minimal angle, there exists a fire risk in Lyneham however it isn't severe.
Housing factors in Lyneham posed several fire risks. Lyneham has a large variety of property types; of the 1,817 occupied private dwellings in 2001, 40% were detached houses, 29% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses and townhouses and 27% were flats, units or apartments (ACT
The first method used was field observations. A small team consisting of Travis Adkins, Declan Noack and Lachlan Chadwick were dropped at the intersection of Wattle street and Dryandra street (Figure 1). Notes and observations were taken using an iPad, and they were guided off recommended indicators provided by Associate Professor Stuart Pearson from UNSW ADFA. Additionally, further data was collected from various websites, journal papers, experts, an unstructured interview and three case studies in order to identify how a complex set of circumstances are inter-winded to produce a particular