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The purpose is to serve as a national framework for implementing the National Veld and Forest Fire Act, and thus to provide a consistent basis for setting priorities for veldfire management interventions such as the promotion of and support to Fire Protection Associations. It also is to serve as the veldfire risk assessment for the National Disaster Management Framework.

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First developed specific veldfire risk scenarios for each fire-ecology type. Determined the likelihood that a fire scenario would come to reality. Then determined the consequences of each of the fire risk scenarios. In both instances it was done for each of the three endpoints; social, economic and environmental. The level of risk for each fire scenario was then assessed using the product of likelihood and consequence and categorised as being Extreme, High, Medium or Low. This was done for each of the endpoints; social, economic and environmental, and these were mapped using mesozones as the unit of mapping. The highest value for any of the three endpoints per mesozone was used to assign an overall risk value to that mesozone. For example if the risk levels were; Extreme social, Major economic and Medium environmental then that mesozone was assigned an overall risk level of Extreme.

Available documentation:

Forsyth,G.G., Kruger, F. and Le Maitre, D., (2010) National veldfire risk assessment: analysis of

exposure of social, economic and environmental assets to veldfire hazards in South Africa.

Stellenbosch, CSIR Natural Resources and the Environment. CSIR Report No:

CSIR/NRE/ECO/ER/2010/0023/C.

SANS 1878

FGDC-STD-001-1998