VicEmergency

Department of Justice and Community Safety

About this app

VicEmergency is the official Victorian Government app for emergency warnings and information. Download VicEmergency, set up a user profile and watch zones to ensure you receive official warnings and information for areas that interest you.

Watch the VicEmergency video at www.youtube.com/channel/UCskGgVGdfEp1C3BMiiwAyzQ
To review support articles or submit a request, visit http://support.emergency.vic.gov.au

Main Features:
• Live incident map showing current warnings, planned burns and other types of incidents across Victoria.***
• Simple to create a profile and use watch zones that ensure you get official warnings for your local area. Warnings and information* are pushed out to a user's phone when issued by Victoria’s emergency services. 
• GPS integration to determine your current location** and surrounding incidents. 
• Emergency Warnings, Warnings, Advice and information as issued by Victoria’s emergency services
• Share incidents and warnings with friends and family.
• View forecast Fire Danger Ratings on the map.
• View today's and tomorrow’s Total Fire Ban status.

* Your device must have an internet connection to receive warnings and information issued by Victorian emergency services. 
** To view your current location, GPS must be switched on and location functionality enabled.
*** Map symbols represent the origin of the emergency, not its current location or spread.

The VicEmergency app is just one tool to assist you to access warnings and information about emergencies, however you should never rely on just one information channel. Emergency services use a range of other information channels including SKY TV, ABC local radio, some commercial and designated community radio stations, VicEmergency Hotline on 1800 226 226, VicEmergency website on www.emergency.vic.gov.au and VicEmergency Twitter and Facebook.

What's New in this Version?
• Addition of other types of emergencies e.g. flood, earthquake, storms, tsunami, shark sightings etc
• Addition of user profile so watch zones can be accessed across multiple devices
• Integration of user profiles and watch zones with the VicEmergency website
• Addition of landscape view for all screens
• Addition of custom tone for notifications
• Addition of edit function for all aspects of watch zones
• Addition of warning notifications by email

Are you getting a message asking Allow "VicEmergency" to access to your location? You need to allow access to see incidents and warnings for your current location. The steps for this will vary depending on your device, model and version of android, but should be similar to this:
• Open device settings
• Select applications
• Select manage applications
• Choose VicEmergency from the list
• Tick the ‘show notifications’ box at the top of the screen

Ratings and reviews

actually it's pretty bad. the maps used are months out of date, perhaps even over a year. When looking at incidents in the state and let's say, half way down the list is a road accident in Drouin. when you check location details you can not get back to where you left, rather you are taken back to the top of the incident list, where as returning to the Drouin incident and those that came before, would be more beneficial

Crashes on new Pixel8. this handy app worked fine on my old iPhone now I find it is useless for Android. Freezes on 'location permissions ' screen. Pretty disappointing for such a critical application

It's a pointless app.. Don't bother downloading it as it doesn’t work. The screen just goes blank when you open it after you download it, and then, eventually, an error message appears. " Application Error The connection to the server was unsuccessful. (file:///android_asset/www /respond/app.html) " It stopped working right after the Grampians bushfires in Jan/Feb 2025 coincidentally. Not very helpful if you own a property in regional Victoria and there aren't any live updates available.

What’s new

Some bug fixes, minor updates and enhancements