Bushfires
Due to the climate of the region, the type of vegetation and the typography, the Dandenong Ranges periodically experience bushfires. Some of the recent occurrences included:
- 1851—Black Thursday
- 1905
- 1926
- 1962
- 1968
- 1983—Ash Wednesday, 27 deaths in the Dandenong ranges
- 1997—3 deaths in the ranges
- 2009—Black Saturday, no deaths in the ranges
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