--- title: Metropolitan Fire Brigade station locations, Melbourne, 2013 resource: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/ publisher: Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board licence: CC BY 3.0 AU licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ version: 2013-05-12 rows: 48 fields: 4 source: http://data.gov.au/storage/f/2013-05-12T201152/tmpGqbqzCMFB-locations.csv source_sha256: 61b8939879dedeb150659cd03463e241604324db1d6d4a85931413368d7a3d9f language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Metropolitan Fire Brigade station locations, Melbourne, 2013 The 47 Metropolitan Fire Brigade stations across Melbourne as listed in May 2013, with their zone, station number, address and fire appliances. Published by Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board under CC BY 3.0 AU and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board has not endorsed this site. Also called: MFB fire station locations, Metropolitan Fire Brigade stations list, Melbourne fire stations by zone. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/v/2013-05-12/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/latest/data.csv (3.9 KB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/latest/data.xlsx (10 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/latest/data.json (8.3 KB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/latest/data.parquet (7.0 KB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/latest/data.sqlite (25 KB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/latest/data.duckdb (100 KB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/latest/data.ndjson (7.9 KB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/latest/data.arrow (6.3 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/latest/data.csv.gz (1.3 KB) Pinned version 2013-05-12: `https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/v/2013-05-12/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/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/rows?station_no=gte.1&limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/aggregate?group=zone&metric=count&station_no=gte.1 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/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `zone` | string | Zone | | | `station_no` | integer | Station No. | | | `address` | string | Address | Street, suburb and postcode as the publisher wrote them. | | `fire_appliances` | string | Fire Appliances | | ## Versions - 2013-05-12: 48 rows, 4 fields, sha256 61b8939879de. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/v/2013-05-12/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/history.tar.zst ## Same subject, other publishers - [Bushfires NT brigade and office locations](https://publicdata.au/d/nt-bushfire-brigade-locations/) (NT) - [Urban fire stations, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-urban-fire-stations/) (Qld) - [Police, fire, ambulance and SES stations, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-emergency-services-facilities/) (Cth) - [Rural fire stations, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-rural-fire-stations/) (Qld) - [Police stations, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-police-stations/) (Qld) - [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) - [Current bushfire incidents and warnings, Queensland, daily snapshot](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-bushfire-incidents-current/) (Qld) - [Bushfire and prescribed burn history, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-fire-history/) (SA) ## Attribution and citation Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board, Victorian Government, MFB Locations, sourced 3 October 2026, https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/mfb-locations-vic, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used. Plain text: Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board, Victorian Government, MFB Locations, sourced 3 October 2026, https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/mfb-locations-vic, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/v/2013-05-12/ Harvard: Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board (2013) Metropolitan Fire Brigade station locations, Melbourne, 2013, version 2013-05-12 [data set], CC BY 3.0 AU, sourced 3 October 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/v/2013-05-12/ Markdown: Data: [Metropolitan Fire Brigade station locations, Melbourne, 2013](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/mfb-locations-vic), Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board, [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/), sourced 3 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/v/2013-05-12/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Metropolitan Fire Brigade station locations, Melbourne as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/v/2013-05-12/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same. ### Can I open Metropolitan Fire Brigade station locations, Melbourne in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/v/2013-05-12/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 48 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/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations/v/2013-05-12/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### How often is Metropolitan Fire Brigade station locations, Melbourne updated? MFB no longer updates it. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Metropolitan Fire Brigade station locations, Melbourne commercially? Yes. CC BY 3.0 AU 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 Metropolitan Fire Brigade station locations, Melbourne? No. The publisher is Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board, and its page is https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/mfb-locations-vic. 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 does each row hold? One Metropolitan Fire Brigade station as listed in May 2013, with its zone, station number, street address and postcode, and the fire appliances based there. ### Is this the current list of Melbourne fire stations? No. The file was published in 2013 and has not changed since. Fire Rescue Victoria replaced the Metropolitan Fire Brigade on 1 July 2020, so stations, numbers and appliances may differ today. ### Why does one row have no station number? The publisher split the address of station 49 over two rows, so the second row holds only the end of that address. It is kept as published. ## 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/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/vic-mfb-fire-station-locations.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.