Emergency Management
Victoria is faced with many different types of emergencies and threats every year. These can range from adverse seasonal conditions causing drought and flood, to natural disasters such as fire, or threats from a locust plague or exotic plant and animal diseases.
We play a key role in managing emergencies promptly and effectively. We advise and implement government's response to a wide range of emergencies, notably biosecurity incursions, drought and energy supply shortfalls. We also play a major role in bushfire recovery work and provide considerable assistance in bushfire response.
We all know too well the significant damage fires can cause on private property, to crops and livestock. Now is the time to write or update your fireplan. More information on precautions landholders can take is available on our Preparing for bushfire page
DPI plays a role in supporting rural landholders to recover from bushfires. For more information, see our Bushfire Recovery page.
There is a range of Emergency Planning and Support information available relating to agriculture, including current alerts.
Emergency Contacts - Use this tool to create your own list of emergency contacts specifically targeting your address.
Our emergency management responsibilities
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The department is responsible for managing state emergency response and recovery efforts for:
- Exotic animal, plant pest and disease outbreaks
- Bushfire, flood, storm hail and frost impacting on private land
- Animal Welfare in Emergencies
- Drought
- Agricultural and veterinary chemicals incidents
- Australian plague locusts
- Plague vertebrate pests (mouse plagues)
- Fisheries incidents (marine and freshwater)
- Mining/ quarrying and petroleum related incidents
- Energy related incidents
- Dairy, meat and seafood production or processing contamination / food supply disruption
- Other, such as invasive weeds, forest pests and diseases, and wood product pests.
More information
Further information about our emergency activities is available in the industry sections of our website.
