A suite of QGIS plugins for Australian bushfire consultants. Measure slope and separation straight off a bare-earth DEM and get the full BAL setback ladder in seconds — powered by the verified FlameView Pro radiant-heat engine.
A Method 2 BAL setback needs slope and separation measured off the DEM, then fed into a radiant-heat calculation. Doing that by hand means jumping between QGIS, a slope tool, and a spreadsheet — copying numbers, hoping nothing got transposed.
It's slow, and every manual hop is a chance for error.
FlameView Pro GIS keeps the whole workflow inside QGIS — measure on the map, get the answer on the map.
Purpose-built QGIS tools for Australian bushfire assessment. More on the way — all sharing one verified calculation engine and one licence.
Three clicks → the full BAL setback ladder
Click the vegetation edge, click into the vegetation, click toward the building. The plugin samples the bare-earth DEM, derives effective slope, site slope and separation, and calls the FlameView Pro engine for BAL‑FZ / 40 / 29 / 19 / 12.5 setbacks — both horizontal and along‑ground.
Profile slope between any two points
Draw a line on the DEM and read the slope along it — the proven measurement approach behind the setbacks tool, available as a standalone utility for quick checks and documentation.
The suite is growing
Additional bushfire-planning plugins are in development — report builders, inspection helpers and assessment utilities, all under one FlameView Pro GIS licence. Tell us what would save you time.
The Method 2 Setbacks workflow, on the map.
Start of the run and the pivot point — the edge of the classified vegetation.
A → B gives the effective slope under the vegetation, sampled from the DEM.
A → C gives the site slope and separation. The BAL ladder is returned and drawn on the canvas.
FlameView Pro GIS doesn't reimplement the bushfire maths — it wraps the FlameView Pro radiant-heat engine as the single source of truth.
View-factor radiant heat flux with the full Appendix B formulas.
Signed effective & site slopes derived by headlessly-tested 3-point trig.
AS3959, PBP 2019 and NSW fuel-load lists, lifted verbatim from FlameView Pro.
Both setback bases returned, so the right one goes straight into your report.
The engine runs on our server — plugins stay thin and the maths stays consistent.
Known-good results locked as automated tests so the numbers never drift.
QGIS 3.34 or newer, a bare-earth (DEM) raster loaded in your project, and an internet connection — the calculation runs on our server and is gated by your API key.
Access is by subscription with a per-user API key. Request access below and we'll set you up — one key works across the whole plugin suite.
It uses the same verified radiant-heat engine, but FlameView Pro GIS is a separate product: QGIS plugins that bring those calculations onto the map. It runs on its own independent infrastructure.
No. It's a measurement and calculation tool. Professional judgement is still required for vegetation classification, site assessment and report preparation.
Each run appends a row to a local GeoPackage run sheet in your project — you can export it to CSV. Calculations are not stored permanently on the server.
Tell us a little about your work and we'll set you up with a key. One subscription covers the whole FlameView Pro GIS plugin suite.