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Wildfire Stats

Alan Thompson made this Official Information request to Fire and Emergency New Zealand

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From: Alan Thompson

Dear Fire and Emergency New Zealand,

Under the provisions of the Official Information Act I request the following information regarding the advice from Fire and Emergency that "in the last 15 years the occurrence of large damaging wildfires has increased and continues to do so".

1. For the years 2022022/23 and 2023/24, what were the total number of vegetation fires and the area burnt for each of the follow vegetation fire classifications:
(a) Public/Conservation lands;
(b) Planted forestry lands;
(c) All other lands.

2. What are the metrics and the trigger values of those metrics that FENZ use to classify a vegetation fire as “large”?

3. What are the numbers of these “large” fires and the total area burnt for each of the last 15 years as advised by FENZ?

Yours faithfully,

Alan Thompson

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Tēnā koe Alan Thompson  
 
We write to acknowledge receipt of your information request dated 26 July
2025. Our commitment is to provide a response to your request as soon as
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Nāku noa, nā
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