A suite of QGIS plugins for Australian bushfire consultants. Measure slope and separation straight off a bare-earth DEM and get the full BAL setback ladder in seconds — powered by the verified FlameView Pro radiant-heat engine.
A Method 2 BAL setback needs slope and separation measured off the DEM, then fed into a radiant-heat calculation. Doing that by hand means jumping between QGIS, a slope tool, and a spreadsheet — copying numbers, hoping nothing got transposed.
It's slow, and every manual hop is a chance for error.
FlameView Pro GIS keeps the whole workflow inside QGIS — measure on the map, get the answer on the map.
Purpose-built QGIS tools for Australian bushfire assessment. More on the way — all sharing one verified calculation engine and one licence.
Three clicks → the full BAL setback ladder
Click the vegetation edge, click into the vegetation, click toward the building. The plugin samples the bare-earth DEM, derives effective slope, site slope and separation, and calls the FlameView Pro engine for BAL‑FZ / 40 / 29 / 19 / 12.5 setbacks — both horizontal and along‑ground.
Short Fire Run → run-length-aware setbacks
The same three-click workflow as Method 2, but powered by the FlameView Pro Short Fire Run model. The fire head width is derived from the fire run length you measure on the canvas, so setbacks reflect the real run rather than a fixed flame front — typically tighter than Method 2 for the same vegetation and slope.
The whole site, loaded in one click
Set up a bushfire pre-assessment in seconds. One-click buttons pull live NSW data straight onto the canvas — cadastre, Bush Fire Prone Land, fire history, imagery and the State Vegetation Type Map — over any NSW extent, plus a tiered slope tool that uses the live 5 m DEM or your own local 1 m LiDAR where you have it.
Draw a line on the DEM — slope, elevation & bearing
Draw straight lines over your DEM and capture slope, elevation and bearing along each as feature attributes — fast, repeatable checks for run lines, access and documentation. Everything is stored in a single GeoPackage and always measured in your project CRS, so GDA94 / GDA2020 projects line up with no offset.
Stream centrelines & riparian buffers from the DEM
Extract stream centrelines straight from your DEM and build riparian buffers around them — the watercourses and vegetation corridors that shape a bushfire assessment. Set an area of interest, run it over tiled elevation data, and save the result as a layer or to file.
Site photos, mapped where they were taken
Import geotagged site photos and drop each one on the map as a numbered marker with a direction arrow showing where the camera was pointing. Click a marker to open the full photo, tick photos in and out, then export a tidy photo-location table straight to Word or CSV for your report.
Sketch on the map, styled and auto-saved
Sketch points, lines, rectangles, circles, polygons, freehand shapes and feature buffers straight onto the canvas, each with its own fill and line style. Every sketch snaps to your existing features and auto-saves to a GeoPackage beside your project, so annotations and mark-ups are never lost.
Move, rotate & edit drawn features
The manipulation companion to Draw. Pick a feature on the active layer and move it, rotate it about its centre, or edit its vertices — drag a point to move it, double-click an edge to add one, right-click a point to delete it — and remove whole features with a confirm. Works on Draw sketches and any editable vector layer.
ELVIS downloads into a ready DEM library
Import 1 m DEM packages downloaded from ELVIS. Select the downloaded files, choose your DEM folder, and the plugin safely extracts and validates the raster tiles, handles duplicates, and reports what it did. You then pick which tiles to add to the map — with an optional VRT mosaic so hundreds of 1 m tiles behave as one layer.
The suite is growing
Additional bushfire-planning plugins are in development — report builders, inspection helpers and assessment utilities, all under one FlameView Pro GIS licence. Tell us what would save you time.
The Method 2 Setbacks workflow, on the map.
Start of the run and the pivot point — the edge of the classified vegetation.
A → B gives the effective slope under the vegetation, sampled from the DEM.
A → C gives the site slope and separation. The BAL ladder is returned and drawn on the canvas.
FlameView Pro GIS doesn't reimplement the bushfire maths — it wraps the FlameView Pro radiant-heat engine as the single source of truth.
View-factor radiant heat flux with the full Appendix B formulas.
Signed effective & site slopes derived by headlessly-tested 3-point trig.
AS3959, PBP 2019 and NSW fuel-load lists, lifted verbatim from FlameView Pro.
Both setback bases returned, so the right one goes straight into your report.
The engine runs on our server — plugins stay thin and the maths stays consistent.
Known-good results locked as automated tests so the numbers never drift.
QGIS 3.34 or newer, a bare-earth (DEM) raster loaded in your project, and an internet connection — the calculation runs on our server and is gated by your API key.
Access is by subscription with a per-user API key. Request access below and we'll set you up — one key works across the whole plugin suite.
It uses the same verified radiant-heat engine, but FlameView Pro GIS is a separate product: QGIS plugins that bring those calculations onto the map. It runs on its own independent infrastructure.
No. It's a measurement and calculation tool. Professional judgement is still required for vegetation classification, site assessment and report preparation.
Each run appends a row to a local GeoPackage run sheet in your project — you can export it to CSV. Calculations are not stored permanently on the server.
Tell us a little about your work and we'll set you up with a key. One subscription covers the whole FlameView Pro GIS plugin suite.