Natural Disasters and Family Violence in Victoria: Evidence Base Data Package
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Last updated: September 2026

This archive contains the source and processed data used in the Victorian
LGA-level evidence base on natural disasters and family violence.

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Source data — Disaster events:

  events/2019_20_vic_bushfires/lga_impact.csv
    Per-LGA household impact data for the 2019-20 Victorian Bushfires
    (Black Summer, AGRN 882). Sources: IGEM Phase 1, council annual reports,
    BRV State Recovery Plan, BNHCRC case studies, council recovery plans.

  events/jun_2021_vic_storms/lga_impact.csv
    Per-LGA household impact data for the June 2021 Victorian Storms and
    Floods (AGRN 969). Sources: Victorian Government Statement of Recovery
    Actions, Parliamentary Hansard, council reports, AIDR.

  events/oct_2022_vic_floods/lga_impact.csv
    Per-LGA household impact data for the October 2022 Victorian Floods
    (AGRN 1037). Sources: VAGO audit report, parliamentary inquiry interim
    and final reports, council recovery plans, ICA submissions, AIDR.

  events/dec2023_jan2024_vic_storms/lga_impact.csv
    Per-LGA household impact data for the December 2023 - January 2024
    Victorian Storms (AGRN 1096). Sources: Parliamentary submissions,
    council media releases, SES annual report, local media.

  events/feb_2024_vic_storms/lga_impact.csv
    Per-LGA household impact data for the February 2024 Victorian Storms
    (AGRN 1108). Sources: AER cost pass-through application, AusNet
    independent review, council reports.

  events/drfa_victoria/drfa_activations.csv
    DRFA activation records for Victoria from NEMA data.gov.au.
    CC-BY 2.5 AU.

  events/drfa_victoria/drfa_nema_raw.csv
    Raw NEMA DRFA data including all states.

  events/disasters.csv
    Full AGRN disaster register from DisasterAssist.gov.au.

  events/aidr_map/aidr_disaster_mapper_victoria.csv
    AIDR Disaster Mapper export for Victoria (163 historical events).

  events/aidr_map/aidr_disaster_mapper_all.csv
    AIDR Disaster Mapper export — all Australian events.

Source data — Family violence:

  Data by Local Government Area Data Tables 2025.xlsx
    Crime Statistics Agency Victoria. Family violence incidents by LGA,
    2014-15 to 2024-25. CC-BY 4.0.

  Justice System Data Tables 2025.xlsx
    Crime Statistics Agency Victoria. Justice system outcomes.
    CC-BY 4.0.

  Service Sector Data Tables 2025.xlsx
    Crime Statistics Agency Victoria. Service sector data.
    CC-BY 4.0.

  yearending31dec2014 family incidents_1.xls
    Crime Statistics Agency Victoria. Family incidents, year ending
    December 2014. Historical LGA data.

  yearending31dec2014 offences_0.xls
    CSA offences data, year ending December 2014.

  yearending31dec2014 allegedoffenderincidents_0.xls
    CSA alleged offender incidents, year ending December 2014.

  yearending31dec2014 victim reports.xls
    CSA victim reports, year ending December 2014.

Processed data:

  lga_household_impacts.csv
    Compiled per-LGA dwelling damage data across 5 major events (17 LGAs).
    Columns: event_name, agrn, lga_name, metric, value, source_url, notes.

  vic_disaster_fv_panel.csv
    Merged panel dataset: DRFA disaster declarations by LGA with annual
    FV incident counts. Columns include AGRN, LGA, hazard type, start date,
    and FV counts for financial years 2020-21 to 2024-25 and calendar years
    2010-2014.

  drfa_activations_vic.csv
    Victorian DRFA activations with DRFA categories (A through D), AGDRP
    eligibility, and DRA eligibility.


LICENSING
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Crime Statistics Agency data: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
NEMA DisasterAssist data: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia
AIDR data: published for public use
Council reports and parliamentary submissions: public documents

This compilation is provided for research purposes.


METHODOLOGY
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Data processing scripts are available in the source repository at:
  src/ingest_lga_impacts.py    — LGA household impact extraction
  src/process_disasters_agrn.py — AGRN register processing
  src/process_drfa.py           — DRFA activation processing
  src/process_csa_fv.py         — CSA family violence data processing
  src/build_disaster_fv_panel.py — Panel dataset construction
  src/lga_normalise.py          — LGA name normalisation
