When was the Black Saturday Bushfires? 7th February 2009 What weather conditions impacted/ intensified the fires? Temperatures reached 46 degrees and there were winds of excess of 100km. Leading up to the fires was 2 months of extremely low rainfall as well as hot dry conditions, Where were the fires? How many fires where there? Roughly there were 400 fires What were some of the impacts of the fire? The main impact was that it killed 173 people, injured 414 people, destroyed 2,100 homes and displaced 7,562 people.