Preparing for bushfire involves more than physical preparations to and around your house and garden. It also includes following your bushfire plan and ensuring you enact it fully on days when the fire danger rating in your area is extreme or catastrophic, or in the event of a bushfire.

The following resources will help you think about your bushfire preparation.

Websites

• TasALERT - Get Ready

• Australian Red Cross - Preparedness

• Bushfire Resilience Inc. - Resource Hub

• Geoneon - Hobart Bushfire Exposure Index

• ABC Radio National - Forging a fire ready future

• University of Tasmania - Living with fire (short course)

Documents

• Tasmania Fire Service - Property Preparation Checklist

• Tasmania Fire Service - Bushfire Hazard Management Area

• Tasmania Fire Service - Bushfire Hazard Management Plan

• Tasmania Fire Service - Farming communities and the TFS working together to reduce bushfire risk

• Tasmania Fire Service - Register your fire card

• Tasmania Fire Service - Reducing the fire risk in your garden

• Tasmania Fire Service - Fire retardant garden plants for the urban fringe and rural areas

• Tasmania Fire Service - Red Hot Tips: Planned Burning Manual

• Tasmania Fire Service - Water Supply Signage Manual

• Tasmania Fire Service - Building for Bushfire: Water Supplies

• Tasmania Fire Service - Building for Bushfire: Access

• Tasmania Fire Service - Red Hot Tips: Fire Equipment List

• TasNetworks - Preventing Bushfires

• CSIRO - Bushfire Best Practice Guide: Bushfire Basics

• CSIRO - Bushfire Best Practice Guide: Retrofits

• CSIRO - Bushfire Best Practice Guide: Landscaping

• TasALERT - Get Ready: Insurance Checkup

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