The weather bureau has issued severe weather warnings for most of the state as some areas have recorded solid rainfall.

The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) warned some parts of Victoria could be hit with a month's worth of rain over the next few days.

Victoria's State Emergency Service (SES) received more than 100 calls for help on Friday after a major downpour hit central Victoria.

Heavy rain caused some localised flooding in the Bendigo region, including at Golden Square, Maiden Gully, Marong, and Kennington.

The SES said some people were reporting water levels rising up to their front doors.

SES state commander Tim Wiebusch said there had been some minor property damage, but no injuries had been reported.

"The damage that we're having reported is water entering in through roofs and also down through driveways and into people's properties," Mr Wiebusch said.

"There also has been some minor ceiling damage as water has got into the roof cavities."

He said people should drive cautiously across the state, where the risk of thunderstorms and flash flooding was current.

Rain forecast across Victoria

Up to 80 millimetres of rain is forecast to fall across the state over the weekend, with more than 100 millimetres likely through the north-east ranges and the north-west.

The weather bureau issued a severe weather warning for all Victorian districts, urging people to be on alert for heavy rain and flash flooding.

Bright, in the state's north, has already received almost 40mm in 24 hours; Lakes Entrance in the east had 37mm.

Terry Ryan, senior forecaster at the BoM said some areas of the state had already exceeded their January average rainfall.

"Fiskville had 34 millimetres today, Bendigo 24 nearly, and a lot of January's total averages are only 30-40 millimetres for a lot of parts of Victoria, so some parts have exceeded that already, particularly over the past few days," Mr Ryan said.

"January can be quite a dry month, I thought we would have launched into a heatwave now, but we've gone moist and tropical, we've done exactly the opposite.

"It's a big change to the pattern, and this weekend we've got more to come."

Emergency services commissioner Craig Lapsley told 774 ABC Melbourne that Victorian holidaymakers camping along rivers needed to be on alert.

"You need to look at how much water has dropped upstream and think about what that means to you on whatever river you're camping on," he said.

Mr Lapsley said it had been a busy week for emergency crews.

"We had a heat alert in multiple districts, we had fire dangers that were extreme in the Friday to Saturday period," he said.

"At the end of that we had storm activity and lightning. We've had it all."

Fire threat eases as humid, wet conditions arrive

The wet weather is helping firefighters get the upper hand on bushfires in Victoria.

A number of blazes are burning across the state but the Rocklands blaze in the west is the only fire yet to be contained.

"The rain will be very, very handy because in some of the rocky, escarpment country it's very, very difficult to do it by hand," state emergency control centre spokesman Graeme Baxter said.

"Rain is the best antidote for fires in those situations so if we get long, slow, steady rain, that'll be the best thing that we're after."

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