Aboriginal Cultural Heritage (ACH) Vulnerability to Bushfire Product is a first step towards better predicting the vulnerability of both known and unknown ACH to bushfire. ACH remains largely unrecorded, and the impact of bushfires on that heritage is not well understood or predicted.  As a bushfire moves through the landscape and encounters various types of ACH the vulnerability of that heritage will depend on the fire behaviour; the location of the heritage material; the nature of the heritage object and its vulnerability to radiant of convective heat, embers, soot, smoke or other outputs of a fire burning through fuel.

The ACH Vulnerability to Bushfire product is an initial attempt to map the vulnerability of Aboriginal Culture and Heritage to bushfire across NSW. It is based on the modelled potential distribution of ACH across the landscape in NSW as mapped in the Aboriginal Sites Decision Support Tool (ASDST). The product, and its method of derivation, has a range of applications to assess the vulnerability of various Natural Hazards or management actions to Aboriginal heritage. 

The effectiveness of the vulnerability product is based on developing a landscape scale understanding of the distribution of recorded Aboriginal Sites in NSW and applying a basic approach to produce a landscape-wide risk map that can be used to assess the vulnerability of ACH. The product is designed to be used in conjunction with information from the Aboriginal Heritage Information Management System.