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VicEmergency

Victorian warnings, incidents, burn areas and fire danger ratings in one GeoJSON feed from Emergency Management Victoria.

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About

VicEmergency is the State of Victoria's public warnings and incidents service, run by Emergency Management Victoria. Its GeoJSON feed at emergency.vic.gov.au/public/osom-geojson.json combines entries from the CFA, DEECA and Forest Fire Management Victoria, VICSES, the Bureau of Meteorology and neighbouring agencies such as NSW RFS. Each feature carries feedType, sourceOrg, category1, category2, status, location, created and updated, with a cap block on warnings. The top-level properties hold lastUpdated, featureCount and conditions: fire danger ratings, total fire bans, heat and asthma declarations by district.

Through Fibric, an operator matches warnings and incidents to your Victorian sites and delivery areas and proposes holds, notices or evacuation checks for a person to approve.

This is a reference listing. It documents what Fibric would read from VicEmergency and what it could propose, based on the publisher's published interfaces. Fibric builds it under a managed deployment when you request it; selecting it here installs nothing.

Inputs

  • Features typed by feedType: warning, incident and burn-area, each with category1 and category2 such as Fire, Bushfire, Tree Down or Building Damage
  • status per feature, such as Not Yet Under Control, Under Control, Contained, Safe, Responding or Request For Assistance
  • sourceOrg per feature: EMV, VIC/CFA, VIC/DEECA, VIC/DELWP, VIC/SES, AU/BOM and NSW/RFS, with sourceId, sourceFeed and sourceTitle
  • A cap block on warnings with category, event, eventCode, urgency, severity, certainty, senderName and responseType, plus action and webBody text
  • Geometry as Point, Polygon or a GeometryCollection holding both, with location text, sizeFmt and resources counts on incidents
  • conditions in the top-level properties: fdr and tfb per district, forecasts, and heat and asthma declarations, with lastUpdated and featureCount

Proposed actions

Read-only. This feed informs operators; it changes nothing.

Proposed actions are target capabilities. Every action runs propose-first and needs a validated deployment and the appropriate permissions.

What you can build

  • Hold deliveries inside a bushfire warning polygon

    Test delivery addresses against warning geometry and propose a hold on affected orders, with the cap event and action shown, for a person to confirm.

    With Weather Hold

  • Send a total fire ban notice to sites

    Read conditions.tfb by district each morning and draft a notice for sites in a district under a ban, for a manager to send.

    With Severe Weather Notice

  • Start an evacuation roster on a Not Yet Under Control fire

    When an incident with status Not Yet Under Control falls inside a site's radius, propose the on-shift roster and contacts for a person to confirm.

    With Evacuation Roster

  • Log a storm-damage incident at a property

    When a VICSES Tree Down or Building Damage entry lands at a managed address, draft the incident record with created and updated times for a person to file.

    With Incident Draft

Requirements

  • Site and delivery-area coordinates in Victoria to test against warning polygons and incident points
  • Attribution to State of Victoria, Australia, with a link to the EMV emergency data notice
  • If you publish warning data, a display of the last date and time you received an update from the feed
  • A gzip-aware client, since the endpoint returns Content-Encoding: gzip with Cache-Control no-store
Authentication
No key. The osom-geojson.json endpoint answers public GET requests; the VicEmergency support article asks developers to register interest through its request form, and the EMV emergency data page sets the terms.

Limits

  • The response is one file for the whole state; there are no query parameters for district, type or time
  • EMV's support article says the feed is not generally offered and asks you to register interest, even though the URL answers
  • webBody is HTML written for the VicEmergency site, so warning text needs stripping before reuse
  • status values are set by the source agency and differ between fire, SES and BoM entries; Unknown appears

Access and pricing

Reference listing. Public feed access is separate from Fibric integration. If you request this feed, your quote covers the build, usage, and support.

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Questions and answers

What licence covers the feed?
Emergency Management Victoria provides the data under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence, excluding images, logos and the Victorian Coat of Arms. Identify the source as State of Victoria, Australia, link to the EMV notice, and if you publish warnings, show the last time you received an update.
How is the feed structured?
A GeoJSON FeatureCollection. Each feature has a geometry and properties such as feedType, sourceOrg, category1, category2, status, location, created and updated; warnings add a cap block. The top-level properties carry lastUpdated, featureCount, notices and conditions with fire danger ratings and total fire bans by district.
Do I need to register?
The endpoint answers without credentials. The VicEmergency support article, last updated in 2019, states the data feed is not generally available and invites you to register interest through its request form. Fibric treats the EMV emergency data terms as binding either way.
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