Firebrand numerical simulation and radiant heat/firebrand house exposure models

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Creators:
Grant Williamson (0000-0002-3469-7550)
Co-Creators:
Amila Wickramasinghe (0000-0002-0481-9166) , Owen Price (0000-0001-5327-568X) , Stefania Ondei (0000-0002-2515-3316) , David Bowman (0000-0001-8075-124X)

Biological Sciences

embers firebrands radiant heat wui fire behaviour house loss hazard risk

Dataset associated with the manuscript: "Wildfire house loss hazard mapping and fuel management scenario planning on a Tasmanian wildland-urban interface using radiant heat and firebrand exposure modelling" Data consists of statistical and transect-based summaries of firebrand spatial distribution from numerical simulations of firebrand transport under a range of fire weather and topographical scenarios, and the outputs of statistical firebrand model and radiant heat model on housing exposure across the Hobart and Glenorchy areas, indicating proportion of houses impacted by these hazards at a range of fire weather and interface structure scenarios.

2025 – 2026

Firebrand transport was simulated in Fire Dynamics Simulator under a range of fire weather, fuel load and landscape topography scenarios. Housing exposure was estimated using geographically-explicit models of radiant heat and firebrand transport derived from the numerical simulations, across a range of fire weather and fuel load scenarios.

300706 Forestry fire management 300707 Forestry management and environment 350703 Disaster and emergency management
190401 Climatological hazards (e.g. extreme temperatures, drought and wildfires)

Data Access



Williamson, G, Wickramasinghe, A, Price, O, Ondei, S, Bowman, D (2026) Data from: Firebrand numerical simulation and radiant heat/firebrand house exposure models. https://dx.doi.org/10.25959/xxa6-x414
10.25959/xxa6-x414 (DataCite reference)
Grant Williamson (0000-0002-3469-7550)
04-Mar-2026