Black Saturday bushfires

When

7 Feb 2009 – 14 Mar 2009

Kind

Wildfire

Coordinates

37.58° S, 141.64° E

Description

bushfires that occurred in February 2009 in Victoria, Australia

Deaths

231

Injured

414

2009 Australian fires

The Black Saturday bushfires were a series of bushfires that either ignited or were already burning across the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday, 7 February 2009, and was one of Australia's all-time worst bushfire disasters. The fires occurred during extreme bushfire weather conditions and resulted in Australia's highest-ever loss of human life from a bushfire, with 173 fatalities.

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• Wikidata: famines, epidemics and firesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bushfires in Victoria leave 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei Buschfeuern im australischen Bundesstaat Victoria kommen 173 Menschen ums Leben”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Comienza el peor incendio forestal de la historia de Australia; mueren 173 personas, quedan heridas otras 500 y 7500 pierden su hogar”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “オーストラリア・メルボルン近郊において大規模な山火事発生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page