Bushfires in Victoria

Find books, government reports, websites, statistics, newspaper articles and images about Victorian bushfires from 1851 to today.

Resources

These resources represent only some of the many reports and inquiries made into the prevention of serious bushfire damage. More government reports about specific fires can be found by clicking the dates on the tabs above.

Major reviews and inquiries into bushfire management in Victoria by Forest Fire Management Victoria
Code of practice for fire management on public land (2012) by Department of Environment and Primary Industries
PDF. You can read more about why this code of practice was put in place at an archived copy of the DSE website.
Victorian bushfire risk profiles report by Department of Environment and Primary Industries
Online. 'A foundational framework for strategic bushfire risk assessment'. Describes 'how DEPI uses Phoenix RapidFire to model bushfires at a state and landscape level. It also describes how DEPI measures the effectiveness of fuel management activities to reduce bushfire risk'. No longer on the DEPI website - link to copy on the Internet Archive.
Extreme heat events (2011) by PricewaterhouseCoopers; Department of Climate Change and Energy and Efficiency
Gender and Wildfire: landscapes of uncertainty by Christine Eriksen
Publication Date: 2013-11-20
eBook. Examines the role of fire in 'maintaining and upholding gender roles', particularly in relation to the 2009 Black Saturday fires. Includes extracts of research.
Australian bushfire fatalities 1900–2008: exploring trends in relation to the ‘Prepare, stay and defend or leave early’ policy (2010) by Katharine Haynes, John Handmer, John McAneney, Amalie Tibbits, Lucinda Coates
Report on the impact of public land management practices on bushfires in Victoria (2008) by Environment and Natural Resources Committee, Victorian Parliament
National inquiry on bushfire mitigation and management: a report to the Council of Australian Governments: summary report (2005)
'This summary report contains information on the scope of the review, the Executive Summary from the full report, and the 29 recommendations and 46 findings provided to COAG [Council of Australian Governments]. It also contains the COAG response to the recommendations'
Forest fire and funeral pyre: tragedies of the Victorian bush by Peter Evans
Published in Victorian Naturalist, vol 121, no 3, 2004.
Biodiversity and fire: the effects and effectiveness of fire management
Proceedings of a conference held 8-9 October 1994, Footscray, Melbourne.
Fire protection (1992) by Auditor-General; Parliamentary Paper (Victoria)
Online. 'An examination of the management of fire prevention and fire suppression in the State's forests, national parks and other protected public land'.
Report on selected major fires in country areas of Victoria on 14th January, 1985 by Country Fire Authority (CFA)
Report of the board of inquiry into the occurrence of bush and grass fires in Victoria (1977) by Parliamentary Paper (Victoria)
Online.
Select committee on bush fires (1905) by Parliamentary Paper (Victoria)
Online. This parliamentary committee expired without presenting a report to Parliament, but did collect minutes of evidence.

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