2009 Victorian bushfires

Quality:

Black Saturday bushfires - bushfires that occurred in February 2009 in Victoria, Australia. Article “2009 Victorian bushfires” in Simple English Wikipedia has 99.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 137 references and 15 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

In June 2026 the article “2009 Victorian bushfires” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (3828^th place) and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “2009 Victorian bushfires”, its content was written by 82 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1061^st place) and edited by 1220 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 746 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #40 in December 2017
• Global: #7 in February 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #511 in March 2009
• Global: #1098 in February 2009

There are 24 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Simple English (simple) 2009 Victorian bushfires		99.2312
2	Spanish (es) Incendios forestales en Victoria de febrero de 2009		91.4286
3	English (en) Black Saturday bushfires		90.037
4	German (de) Buschfeuer in Victoria 2009		71.4155
5	Malay (ms) Kebakaran hutan Victoria 2009		43.4463
6	Polish (pl) Pożary buszu w Wiktorii (2009)		38.1893
7	Chinese (zh) 2009年维多利亚森林大火		35.6422
8	Finnish (fi) Australian maastopalot 2009		31.5356
9	Russian (ru) Лесные пожары в Австралии (2009)		29.3016
10	Indonesian (id) Kebakaran hutan Victoria 2009		26.4419

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black Saturday bushfires		5 298 501
2	Simple English (simple) 2009 Victorian bushfires		123 041
3	German (de) Buschfeuer in Victoria 2009		110 187
4	Spanish (es) Incendios forestales en Victoria de febrero de 2009		72 329
5	Chinese (zh) 2009年维多利亚森林大火		55 481
6	French (fr) Incendies de végétation du Victoria de 2009		49 431
7	Polish (pl) Pożary buszu w Wiktorii (2009)		46 817
8	Japanese (ja) 2009年ビクトリア州森林火災		45 234
9	Russian (ru) Лесные пожары в Австралии (2009)		44 506
10	Swedish (sv) Skogsbränderna i Australien 2009		26 832

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black Saturday bushfires		7 698
2	Simple English (simple) 2009 Victorian bushfires		396
3	Chinese (zh) 2009年维多利亚森林大火		324
4	German (de) Buschfeuer in Victoria 2009		96
5	French (fr) Incendies de végétation du Victoria de 2009		89
6	Spanish (es) Incendios forestales en Victoria de febrero de 2009		88
7	Polish (pl) Pożary buszu w Wiktorii (2009)		55
8	Danish (da) Bushbrandene i Australien 2009		52
9	Italian (it) Incendi del sabato nero		49
10	Japanese (ja) 2009年ビクトリア州森林火災		38

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Black Saturday bushfires		662
2	Simple English (simple) 2009 Victorian bushfires		82
3	German (de) Buschfeuer in Victoria 2009		76
4	French (fr) Incendies de végétation du Victoria de 2009		54
5	Chinese (zh) 2009年维多利亚森林大火		37
6	Spanish (es) Incendios forestales en Victoria de febrero de 2009		36
7	Polish (pl) Pożary buszu w Wiktorii (2009)		34
8	Russian (ru) Лесные пожары в Австралии (2009)		34
9	Vietnamese (vi) Cháy rừng tại Victoria 2009		29
10	Danish (da) Bushbrandene i Australien 2009		23

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Black Saturday bushfires		8
2	Spanish (es) Incendios forestales en Victoria de febrero de 2009		1
3	Simple English (simple) 2009 Victorian bushfires		1
4	Swedish (sv) Skogsbränderna i Australien 2009		1
5	Arabic (ar) حرائق أحراش فكتوريا (2009)		0
6	Danish (da) Bushbrandene i Australien 2009		0
7	German (de) Buschfeuer in Victoria 2009		0
8	Persian (fa) آتش‌سوزی شنبه سیاه		0
9	Finnish (fi) Australian maastopalot 2009		0
10	French (fr) Incendies de végétation du Victoria de 2009		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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