Bushfire Management Statement Shoreham Mornington Peninsula

Bushfire Landscape Hazard Assessments provide the contextual information to the site's bushfire hazard. When developing a Bushfire Management Statement in Shoreham, the main bushfire hazard comes up from the open pastures that run uphill to the settlement of Shoreham.

However the landscape assessments zooms out to include the bushfire hazard of the Stringybark forests that stand tall on the spurs that lead up to Main ridge just 900 metres away to the North.

This tract of forest combined with the prevailing Northerly winds on a high fire danger day, has the potential if ignited, to result in multiple spot fires with the airborne Stringybark embers that travel with the wind and ignite dry vegetation where they fall. Embers from a bushfire in this landscape hazard could ignite the fine fuels and scattered trees between the houses in the settlement of Shoreham.