Mobile Network Sites Near Mapped Wildfires Since 2021

A site is counted in the state its records are placed in. One site on the New South Wales and Queensland border has records in both, and one site on the Adelaide coast, outside the council boundaries, has no state, so the national totals above are the count of distinct sites. A fire counts wherever it was mapped, so a site near a border is measured against fires on both sides.

A site shared by several networks counts once for each of them here, so the operator rows add up to more than the national total. The Optus-TPG shared network records repeat Optus sites.

• Sites: the ACCC Mobile Infrastructure Report data for 2026, one or more records per operator per site, counted by the site's RFNSA ID. A site counts when any of its records is inside or within the distance.
• Fires: wildfire extents mapped from 1 July 2021, from the national bushfire extents, the state fire histories and Geoscience Australia's Northern Territory set. The same fire often appears in more than one source; that does not change a distance. Planned burns and fires of unknown type are left out.
• Distance: from the site to the edge of the nearest wildfire, measured along the earth's surface. A distance of zero means inside.

• A site near a wildfire is a distance, not a finding about the site. It does not say a site was damaged, lost power or went off air.
• The fire maps do not cover the same years everywhere (the state table): Queensland has nothing after January 2024, the Northern Territory nothing before January 2025, and the ACT only the national set's 2022-23 fires. Most Northern Territory extents are of unknown type and are left out. The counts are a floor for those places, not a census.
• The site list is from January 2026, so a site built after a fire is counted against it.

Mobile network sites: the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, under CC BY 2.5 AU. Wildfire extents: the agencies listed at /api/v1/attribution, each under its own licence. Both are in DataQuoll: the sites as the mobile network sites dataset, searchable by radius around any point, and the fires in the incident archive.