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Tasmania's AI-Enabled Fire Camera Network Detects 550+ Fires in a Single Season

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Evidence: Observational / pre–post Top 22% 73/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Tasmania's AI camera network — built by Indicium Dynamics with Sustainable Timber Tasmania, Tasmania Fire Service and Parks and Wildlife Service — detected 550+ fires in the 2024/25 season, escalating 123 to agencies, backed by a AU$1.4m federal grant to double coverage.

550+ fires
Fires detected (2024/25 fire season)
123 fires
Fires escalated to fire management agencies (2024/25 fire season)
1.4 AU$ million
Federal grant to double camera/drone coverage (awarded November 2025)
Tasmania's AI-Enabled Fire Camera Network Detects 550+ Fires in a Single Season Tasmania's AI-Enabled Fire Camera Network Detects 550+ Fires in a Single Season

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Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
Sustainable Timber Tasmania
Period
2023–2026
Keywords
forestry, civil protection, disaster risk management, emergency services

Context

Sustainable Timber Tasmania, the state's forestry manager, partnered with the Tasmania Fire Service and Parks and Wildlife Service to deploy an AI-enabled 360-degree camera network — built by Hobart-based Indicium Dynamics — on existing fire-lookout towers, scanning continuously for smoke with a typical detection range of 20-30 km (up to 78 km by day, 130 km by night).

Activities

Cameras feed continuous smoke-detection alerts to fire agencies; in one documented case near St Marys in December 2024, a camera-spotted fire was extinguished within two hours of a helicopter being dispatched on the alert.

Results

In the 2024/25 fire season the network detected more than 550 fires across Tasmania and referred 123 of them directly to fire management agencies.

Conclusions

In November 2025 a AU$1.4 million federal grant was awarded to build the Tasmanian Integrated Fire Camera Network, doubling remote camera coverage with next-generation cameras and drones; reporting does not yet include an independent audit of false-positive rates or a counterfactual estimate of damage avoided.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years)

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