Wildfires in Victoria
Victoria, Australia: 39 fires with a page have entered 22 of its 79 local government areas since 2016, burning 1,896,052 hectares inside the region. The largest was East Gippsland in 4 December 2019, with 579,147 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).
Only fires of 5,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 1,896,052ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 8.3%
- 228,823 km²
- fires
- 39
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 22
- of 79
- Largest fire
- 579,147ha
- East Gippsland · 4 December 2019
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 28 Low 18° · 46 % · 32 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 22° · 47 % · 33 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 27° · 30 % · 35 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 24° · 30 % · 49 km/h
- Sun 1 Low 21° · 44 % · 33 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 22° · 62 % · 32 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 22° · 55 % · 51 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 22° · 52 % · 63 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 19° · 38 % · 53 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- East Gippsland 941,818 ha · 45 %
- Towong 269,004 ha · 40 %
- Wellington 189,893 ha · 18 %
- Alpine 128,472 ha · 27 %
- Southern Grampians 63,514 ha · 9.5 %
- Mildura 55,780 ha · 2.5 %
- Murrindindi 45,538 ha · 12 %
- Strathbogie 36,323 ha · 11 %
- Ararat 34,896 ha · 8.3 %
- Northern Grampians 34,041 ha · 5.9 %
- West Wimmera 22,272 ha · 2.4 %
- Colac Otway 16,904 ha · 4.9 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 15×East Gippsland941,818 ha
- 8×Wellington189,893 ha
- 7×Alpine128,472 ha
- 6×Towong269,004 ha
- 2×Southern Grampians63,514 ha
- 2×Ararat34,896 ha
- 2×Northern Grampians34,041 ha
- 2×West Wimmera22,272 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 579,147 haEast Gippsland4 December 2019 · 67 days of 755,711 ha in total
- 243,182 haEast Gippsland3 December 2019 · 33 days
- 126,180 haTowongJanuary 2026 · 30 days
- 94,950 haStrathbogieJanuary 2026 · 12 days
- 79,350 haWellington28 February 2019 · 22 days
- 71,957 haTowong30 December 2019 · 21 days of 86,829 ha in total
- 69,248 haAlpine31 December 2019 · 20 days
- 67,018 haSouthern GrampiansJanuary 2025 · 13 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 6 | 362,566 | Towong 126,180 ha |
| 2025 | 3 | 86,872 | Southern Grampians 67,018 ha |
| 2024 | 2 | 66,259 | Ararat 60,182 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 11,872 | Wellington 11,872 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 9,884 | West Wimmera 9,884 ha |
| 2020 | 5 | 35,856 | Towong 10,214 ha |
| 2019 | 17 | 1,294,979 | East Gippsland 579,147 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 8,026 | Wellington 8,026 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 13,552 | East Gippsland 8,533 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 6,185 | Alpine 6,185 ha |
All fires in Victoria · 39
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 16,904 haColac OtwayJanuary 2026 · 21 days
- 5,587 haYarriambiackJanuary 2026 · 7 days
- 55,780 haMilduraJanuary 2026 · 6 days
- 63,165 haWellingtonJanuary 2026 · 18 days
- 94,950 haStrathbogieJanuary 2026 · 12 days
- 126,180 haTowongJanuary 2026 · 30 days
- 7,466 haWellingtonFebruary 2025 · 15 days
- 12,388 haWest WimmeraFebruary 2025 · 6 days
- 67,018 haSouthern GrampiansJanuary 2025 · 13 days
- 60,182 haAraratDecember 2024 · 18 days
- 6,077 haAraratFebruary 2024 · 7 days
- 11,872 haWellingtonOctober 2023 · 2 days
- 9,884 haWest WimmeraDecember 2021 · 2 days
- 10,214 haTowongJanuary 2020 · 7 days
- 6,290 haEast Gippsland23 January 2020 · 15 days
- 6,316 haSnowy ValleysJanuary 2020 · 10 days of 11,745 ha in total
- 5,235 haEast Gippsland9 January 2020 · 7 days
- 7,802 haEast Gippsland9 January 2020 · 7 days
- 69,248 haAlpine31 December 2019 · 20 days
- 7,804 haGlenelgDecember 2019 · 4 days
- 34,783 haEast Gippsland31 December 2019 · 5 days
- 23,728 haTowong31 December 2019 · 5 days
- 16,624 haAlpine31 December 2019 · 5 days
- 71,957 haTowong30 December 2019 · 21 days of 86,829 ha in total
- 59,405 haGreater HumeDecember 2019 · 17 days of 94,721 ha in total
- 579,147 haEast Gippsland4 December 2019 · 67 days of 755,711 ha in total
- 243,182 haEast Gippsland3 December 2019 · 33 days
- 7,800 haEast GippslandNovember 2019 · 8 days
- 14,179 haCardiniaMarch 2019 · 9 days
- 32,790 haWellington28 February 2019 · 23 days
- 16,786 haAlpineFebruary 2019 · 18 days
- 5,377 haWellington28 February 2019 · 18 days
- 79,350 haWellington28 February 2019 · 22 days
- 8,928 haBaw BawJanuary 2019 · 10 days
- 23,891 haEast GippslandJanuary 2019 · 18 days
- 8,026 haWellingtonMarch 2018 · 21 days
- 8,533 haEast GippslandSeptember 2017 · 12 days
- 5,019 haEast GippslandApril 2017 · 2 days
- 6,185 haAlpineApril 2016 · 10 days
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Australian Bureau of Statistics (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
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