The Country Fire Authority in Victoria has blamed Apple for reportedly dangerous deficiencies in the maps on its FireReady bushfire information app for iPhone and iPad.

The FireReady app was forced to use Apple Maps, CFA said, but the maps were inaccurate and "Macedon and a number of other Victorian towns are located incorrectly".

A screenshot of the FireReady app.

"Users report that towns are located on their maps at the centre of the district rather than on the actual township itself," a CFA spokesman said.

Marcel Theunissen from Mt Rael in the Yarra Valley said his local CFA "fireguard" bushfire safety community group and others in the region had made "many complaints" about the Apple Maps lack of detail and errors in the CFA FireReady app.