Of all the recorded fires in Australia, the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in the state of Victoria claimed the largest number of recorded deaths of any individual Australian bushfire or bushfires season173 fatalities over 21 days. The largest known area burnt was between , impacting approximately 15 per cent of Australia's physical land mass, during the 1974-75 Australian bushfire season. The most number of homes destroyed was approximately 3,700 dwellings, attributed to Victoria's 1939 Black Friday bushfires.