MEDIA RELEASE — Friday 2 October 2026
The new Index assesses 450,356 building footprints across Tasmania and helps communities, councils and other decision-makers explore relative modelled wildfire exposure for long-term preparedness and planning.
Geoneon has released the Tasmania Wildfire Index 2026, a statewide screening resource that brings together landscape conditions and building-footprint context. It covers all 29 Tasmanian local government areas and 769 suburbs, allowing readers to compare both the number and the share of assessed building footprints in Wildfire Exposure Index (WEI) classes 7–10.
Across Tasmania, 38,950 of 450,356 assessed building footprints — 8.6% — fall within WEI classes 7–10. The statewide percentage is a reference point, not a statement that every location within a class has the same circumstances. Local counts and proportions can tell different stories, so the Index presents both.
“We built the Index to make statewide evidence easier to explore and use in preparedness conversations. The maps can help communities and decision-makers identify where more local investigation and planning may be valuable.” — Roxane Bandini-Maeder, CEO and co-founder, Geoneon.
“These classes summarise relative modelled exposure around assessed building footprints. They are not a prediction of when a fire will occur or a property-level risk rating. We want people to use the Index as screening evidence alongside local knowledge and official advice.” — Dr Alex Bandini-Maeder, CTO and co-founder, Geoneon.
The Index combines geospatial data representing vegetation and fuel, topography, and climate and dryness to model relative wildfire conditions across the landscape. Those conditions are summarised around assessed building footprints as ordered WEI classes. The building-footprint counts are not direct counts of dwellings, addresses, properties or people.
The Index is not a live warning, a fire forecast, an evacuation guide, an expected-loss estimate, a complete measure of bushfire risk or a building-vulnerability assessment. It should not be used for insurance, financial or regulatory decisions or in place of official emergency information. Lower model classes do not mean risk-free conditions.
Explore the Tasmania Wildfire Index 2026, Interactive map and Version 1.0 report. Media assets are available on request from marketing@geoneon.com.
Acknowledgement: The Tasmania Wildfire Index 2026 was developed and funded by Geoneon, with support from Kingborough Council.
Media enquiries: Geoneon Marketing, marketing@geoneon.com. Roxane Bandini-Maeder and Dr Alex Bandini-Maeder are available for interview subject to confirmation.
About Geoneon: Geoneon is a Tasmanian geospatial company that uses earth observation, spatial analysis and natural-hazard expertise to make environmental change easier to see and understand.