Table 1.

Fire impact ¹

Fire impact	Features
High	Fatalities and many houses lost
Medium	Upper end of range may include small number of fatalities through to communities with no fatalities but significant amount of property damage
Low	No fatalities, minimal or no property loss

¹This is a modified version of the classification system developed for the CFA post-fire analysis of the efficacy of the Community Fireguard Program (Gibbs et al., CFA Post-fire Qualitative Research: Preliminary Report. The McCaughey Centre: VicHealth, 2009 p. 6, http://cfa.vic.gov.au/fm_files/attachments/Publications/Post_Fire_Qualitative_Research_Preliminary_Report.pdf).