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title: NSW Rural Fire Service open data
resource: https://publicdata.au/nsw/nsw-rural-fire-service/
jurisdiction: New South Wales
catalogue_read: 2026-09-28
not_endorsed: true
---

# NSW Rural Fire Service open data

NSW Rural Fire Service lists 9 datasets on data.nsw.gov.au. 7 of them have an open licence and a file or API we can read.

## On the portals

- [NSW Bush Fire Prone Land](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/bush-fire-prone-land) (API, PDF, SEED WEB MAP, URL +1; CC-BY; updated 2025-10-29)
- [90th percentile response time to structure fires](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/90th-percentile-response-time-to-structure-fires) (XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2025-07-21)
- [Bushfires contained to under 10 hectares](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/bushfires-contained-to-under-10-hectares) (XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2025-07-21)
- [Rate of deaths](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/rate-of-deaths) (XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2025-07-21)
- [NSW Bush Fire Prone Land](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-bush-fire-prone-land) (WEBSITE LINK; CC-BY; updated 2020-06-22)
- [Fires Near Me NSW](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-rfs-fires-near-me-nsw) (SOFTWARE, WEBSITE LINK; CC-BY; updated 2019-06-11)
- [Fire Danger Ratings and Total Fire Ban Feed](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/fire-danger-ratings-and-total-fire-ban-feed) (XML; CC-BY; updated 2016-07-20)
- [Major Fire Updates Feed](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-rfs-major-fire-updates-feed) (XML; CC-BY; updated 2016-07-20)
- [NSW Rural Fire Service Current Incidents Feed](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-rural-fire-service-current-incidents-feed) (GEOJSON, GEORSS, XML; CC-BY; updated 2016-07-20)

Full list: https://publicdata.au/nsw/nsw-rural-fire-service/catalogue.json