Bushfire mitigation

It’s our priority to keep you and your property safe from bushfires.

The Powercor network services communities within some of the highest bushfire risk areas in Victoria. In fact, approximately half of our assets are in Hazardous Bushfire Risk areas identified through the Country Fire Authority (CFA) Fire Hazard Mapping Project.

We take our responsibility to design, construct, operate and maintain assets to minimise bushfire risk very seriously.

Each year, we work to reduce the risk of fires starting from our assets, while ensuring power supplies can be sustained in affected communities – to help them recover.

This work focuses on managing vegetation clearances around powerlines, extensive asset inspection and maintenance programs, innovative network safety and protection systems and helping customers manage privately owned overhead electric lines.

We use state-of-the-art technology to continually improve the way we can identify and manage any fire risk and conduct regular consultation with customers and stakeholders right across Melbourne and central and western Victoria regarding their expectations about bushfire mitigation.

We also use a fire risk model developed by the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to help us plan for bushfires at any point on our network.