Council & Business
1 August, 2025
Resilience survey launches
Pyrenees Shire Council has released a Community Resilience Survey to gain residents’ input on their preparedness and capacity around disaster and emergency events.
The survey forms part of the Safer Together Bushfire Resilience Project and the Pyrenees Shire Resilience Plan development.
Under the Victorian Government’s Safer Together Program — Strengthening Local Government Partnerships, Pyrenees Shire Council received $300,000 to deliver four collaborative and community focused projects to assist in reducing bushfire risk and building community preparedness.
The four projects include:
A Pyrenees Shire Indigenous fire wise plant guide
Landscaping Educational Workshops
Community led conversations around disaster and emergency preparedness
A Bushfire Resilient Homes Expo in October 2026
The Community Resilience Survey includes questions on disaster preparedness, resources people have available in the case of a bushfire, including phone apps, and confidence levels about disaster recovery.
Pyrenees Shire Council CEO Jim Nolan said the Safer Together Bushfire Resilience Project is a great opportunity to build community knowledge, skills and resources to assist residents to be better prepared for future disasters such as bushfire.
“Pyrenees Shire has been hard hit by floods and fires in the past few years, and it is important we give our residents as much support and information as possible to help them prepare for these sorts of disasters,” he said.
“This project will provide a wide range of options for our residents to create fire wise gardens, to best retrofit or fit out their homes to help prevent bushfire or other disaster damage, and to have conversations about solid bushfire resilience plans for our communities.”
The Community Resilience Survey is the first step in the project and can be found at pyrenees.vic. gov.au/Residents/Engage.