These data were collected as part of the River Red Gum Ecological Thinning Trial.

Components of fuel hazard were assessed in accordance with Hines F, Tolhurst KG, Wilson AAG & McCarthy GJ (2010) Overall fuel hazard assessment guide: Fire and adaptive management, Report no. 82, 4th edition, July 2010, Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment, Melbourne.

Overall fuel hazard is determined from the hazard assessments of four components of fuel hazard: surface fuel hazard; near surface fuel hazard; elevated fuel hazard; and bark fuel hazard.

Fuel hazard data were collected in three 20 m x 20 m subplots in each 9 ha plot, six times over seven years.

Further information is provided in the reference guide for the dataset.