Bushfires in Victoria

The state of Victoria in Australia has had a long history of catastrophic bushfires.

The most deadly of these, the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009 claiming 173 lives. Legislation, planning, management, and suppression are the responsibilities of the Victorian State Government

By number of fires

1851 - 6 February "Black Thursday" (5 million hectares)
1938-39 - December - January "Black Friday" (2 million hectares)
2020 - 3 January "2019–20 Australian bushfire season" (1.5+ million hectares)
2003 - January - March "2003 Eastern Victorian alpine bushfires" (1.3 million hectares)
2006-07 - 1 December - 6 February "Eastern Victoria Great Divide bushfires" (1.2 -1.3 million hectares)
1944 - January - February (1 million hectares)
1983 - 16 February "Ash Wednesday" (510,000 hectares)
2009 - 7 February "Black Saturday" (450,000 hectares)
1965 - Gippsland (300,000 hectares)
1898 - 1 February "Red Tuesday" (260,000 hectares)

v t e Bushfires in Australia
Australian Capital Territory	Canberra (2003)
New South Wales	Seaham (1939) Chatsbury (1965) Eastern seaboard (1994) Black Christmas (2001) / Warragamba (2001) Junee (2006) Pulletop (2006) New South Wales (2013) Tathra (2018)
South Australia	Adelaide Hills (1939) Black Sunday (1955) Wandilo (1958) Ash Wednesday I (1980) Ash Wednesday II (1983) Black Tuesday (2005) Kangaroo Island (2007) Cherryville (2013) Sampson Flat (2015) Pinery (2015)
Tasmania	Black Tuesday (1967) Tasmania (2013) Tasmania (2016)
Victoria	Black Thursday (1851) Heytesbury (1886) Red Tuesday (1898) Black Sunday (1926) Black Friday (1939) WWII (1943–44) Lara (1969) Ash Wednesday (1983) Linton (1998) Eastern Victorian alpine (2003) Mount Lubra (2006) Eastern Victoria Great Divide (2006–07) Black Saturday (2009) Great Ocean Road (2015–16)
Western Australia	Western Australia (1961) Perth Hills (2014) Western Australia (2015) Esperance (2015) Waroona–Yarloop (2016) Wooroloo (2021) Beechina (2021) Wanneroo (2023)
By national season	1925–26 1943–44 1954–55 1964–65 1974–75 1982–83 1993–94 1996–97 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25 2025–26
List of Australian bushfire seasons

v t e Fire services in Australia
National organisations	National Council for Fire & Emergency Services
New South Wales	Fire & Rescue New South Wales New South Wales Rural Fire Service Section 44 powers Community Fire Units List of fire stations
Victoria	Metropolitan Fire Brigade (former) Fire Rescue Victoria Country Fire Authority Forest Fire Management Victoria List of fire stations
Queensland	Queensland Fire Department List of fire stations
Western Australia	Department of Fire & Emergency Services
South Australia	Metropolitan Fire Service Country Fire Service Emergency Fire Service (former) List of fire stations
Tasmania	Tasmania Fire Service
Australian Capital Territory	ACT Fire & Rescue ACT Rural Fire Service Community Fire Units
Northern Territory	Northern Territory Fire & Rescue Service