--- title: Rural fire stations, Queensland resource: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/ publisher: Queensland Fire Department licence: CC BY 4.0 licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ version: 2026-09-28 rows: 555 fields: 8 source: https://www.fire.qld.gov.au/opendata/RuralFireStations.csv source_sha256: cdbd780a14a68221e124b024f1fad7c2f698c373105585cc414aca91e91cc49e language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Rural fire stations, Queensland Every rural fire station of the Rural Fire Service Queensland, with address and coordinates in GDA94 and GDA2020. Updated monthly. Published by Queensland Fire Department under CC BY 4.0 and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. Queensland Fire Department has not endorsed this site. Also called: Rural Fire Service Queensland stations, RFSQ fire stations, Rural fire brigade stations Queensland. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/v/2026-09-28/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/latest/data.csv (73 KB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/latest/data.xlsx (48 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/latest/data.json (131 KB) - geojson: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/latest/data.geojson (194 KB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/latest/data.parquet (40 KB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/latest/data.sqlite (78 KB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/latest/data.duckdb (200 KB) - gpkg: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/latest/data.gpkg (143 KB) - geo.parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/latest/data.geo.parquet (41 KB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/latest/data.ndjson (130 KB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/latest/data.arrow (36 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/latest/data.csv.gz (29 KB) Pinned version 2026-09-28: `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/v/2026-09-28/data.`. Dated versions never change. ## Query The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-rural-fire-stations/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-rural-fire-stations/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-rural-fire-stations/rows?limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-rural-fire-stations/aggregate?metric=count Each filter is `field=operator.value` in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with `ilike`. Prefix `not.` to negate a filter, as `not.eq.value`. Operators: `eq.value`, `neq.value`, `gt.value`, `gte.value`, `lt.value`, `lte.value`, `like.*text*`, `ilike.*text*`, `in.(a,b,c)`, `is.null`. - `select`: Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent. - `order`: `field.asc` or `field.desc`, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent. - `limit`: Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent. - `offset`: Rows to skip. The `next` URL in each answer sets it for you. - `group`: On `aggregate`, fields to group by, comma-separated. - `metric`: On `aggregate`, `count`, `sum.field`, `avg.field`, `min.field` or `max.field`, comma-separated. `count` when absent. - `format`: `json`, `ndjson` or `csv`. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers. Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put `versions//` before `rows` or `aggregate` for an answer that never changes. `/api/v1/datasets//versions` lists the loaded versions. The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a `Retry-After` header, a `RateLimit-Policy` header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same `RateLimit-Policy`. A client should wait the `Retry-After` seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. OpenAPI for this dataset: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `station` | string | STATION | | | `address` | string | ADDRESS | | | `locality` | string | LOCALITY | | | `alt_address` | string | ALTADDRESS | | | `long_gda94` | number | LONG_GDA94 | | | `lat_gda94` | number | LAT_GDA94 | | | `long_gda20` | number | LONG_GDA20 | | | `lat_gda20` | number | LAT_GDA20 | | ## Versions - 2026-09-28: 555 rows, 8 fields, sha256 cdbd780a14a6. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/v/2026-09-28/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/history.tar.zst ## Part of Fire and police station locations, Queensland - [Urban fire stations, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-urban-fire-stations/) - [Police stations, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-police-stations/) ## Same subject, other publishers - [Police, fire, ambulance and SES stations, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-emergency-services-facilities/) (Cth) - [Bushfires NT brigade and office locations](https://publicdata.au/d/nt-bushfire-brigade-locations/) (NT) - [Metropolitan Fire Brigade station locations, Melbourne, 2013](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/) (Vic) - [CFA incident responses, Victoria, 2009-10 to 2021-22](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-cfa-incident-responses/) (Vic) - [2003 Canberra bushfire burn area and property damage](https://publicdata.au/d/act-2003-bushfire/) (ACT) - [Bushfire and prescribed burn history, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-fire-history/) (SA) ## Attribution and citation Queensland Fire Department, Queensland Government, Rural Fire Service Queensland, Rural Fire Stations, sourced 3 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/rural-fire-stations, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used. Plain text: Queensland Fire Department, Queensland Government, Rural Fire Service Queensland, Rural Fire Stations, sourced 3 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/rural-fire-stations, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/v/2026-09-28/ Harvard: Queensland Fire Department (2026) Rural fire stations, Queensland, version 2026-09-28 [data set], CC BY 4.0, sourced 3 October 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/v/2026-09-28/ Markdown: Data: [Fire and police station locations, Queensland](https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/rural-fire-stations), Queensland Fire Department, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), sourced 3 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/v/2026-09-28/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Rural fire stations as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/v/2026-09-28/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, GeoJSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, GeoPackage, GeoParquet, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same. ### Can I open Rural fire stations in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/v/2026-09-28/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 555 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/v/2026-09-28/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### How often is Rural fire stations updated? QFD releases it monthly. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Rural fire stations commercially? Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file. ### Is this the official source for Rural fire stations? No. The publisher is Queensland Fire Department, and its page is https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/rural-fire-stations. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.csv with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared. ### What coordinate system does Rural fire stations use? The publisher gives each station in GDA94 and GDA2020. The map uses the GDA2020 pair (EPSG:7844); both pairs are published as given. The GeoJSON file uses the same coordinates, which is what GeoJSON expects. ### What is in each row? One rural fire station of the Rural Fire Service Queensland, with its name, address, locality, an alternative address where given and its coordinates in GDA94 and GDA2020. ### Does every rural brigade have a station? No. The publisher notes that not all rural brigades have fire stations, so a brigade may be missing from this list. ## What this site did to the data Cells were typed, headers were renamed to snake_case and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. Nothing is derived. The publisher's file is beside every version as `source.csv`. ## Improve this dataset This page is built from [register/qld-rural-fire-stations.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/qld-rural-fire-stations.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.