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Bushfire Resilience Rating
Home Self-Assessment App
The Bushfire Resilience Rating home self-assessment app places decades of science and research into people’s hands, allowing them to assess their home and measure how well it would perform in a bushfire event.
The app provides households with a customised action plan, specific to their individual property and local risk. As tasks are completed, the home’s Resilience Rating is updated – allowing households to immediately see the positive impact on their Rating.
Funded by the Australian Government and supported by industry sponsors, the Ratings provide a new national system, so all Australians know what to do and what will make a difference. As everyone starts taking action – large or small – we will all be better prepared, and better off.
Major Sponsors
Developed by Australia’s leading bushfire experts and funded by the Australian federal government, IAG, NAB and BlueScope Steel, the Bushfire Resilience Rating system takes a best-practice and holistic approach to bushfire resilience that covers building, landscaping and ongoing maintenance.
The Bushfire Resilience Rating was developed by Australia’s leading researchers and engineers through a collaboration led by the Resilient Building Council (RBC), in response to calls from governments, insurers, banks, households, and the 2020 Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements, to understand which actions measurably increase the resilience of individual homes.
It is the first scientific system to measure the bushfire resilience of homes, and has the potential to give insurers, banks and investors a framework for financing and rewarding bushfire resilience adaptations.
We have developed a world-first Resilience Rating system that measures the resilience of property and provides tailored adaptation actions.
Multi-hazard Disaster Resilience Ratings Scheme
The Resilience Rating system measures the disaster resilience and energy efficiency of buildings. It will provide an independent global standard to measure, rate and reward resilience.
The Resilience Ratings will make it easier to adapt homes to our changing climate, by providing a single home assessment, integrated recommendations and ratings certification capability for bushfire, storm, flood, cyclone, heatwave, thermal comfort and energy efficiency.
The system works by assessing site-specific risk and measuring a home’s vulnerability. It will provide households with a list of evidence-based, tailored actions to adapt their home, improve their resilience rating and enable financial incentives.
The Multi-hazard Resilience Ratings expert assessment was launched in 2024. Since then, over 1000 expert on-site assessments have been completed around Australia.
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