An invasion of tumbleweed-like grass has swamped homes in a rural Victorian town, leaving some residents needing to carve a path to their door through piles of weeds more than a metre high.

A street in Wangaratta, in the state's north-east, looks like it was covered in a thick layer of yellowy-brown fairy floss after strong winds blew in mountains of weeds known as "hairy panic grass".

Resident Cheryl Lengrand said the mess took a whole day to clean up, and the next day a new batch of grass was back in her yard.

"I spent eight hours yesterday cleaning up the tumbleweed and this is what I’ve got today," she told Channel 7.

Wangaratta Council spokesman Andrew Chuck said the street deluged in hairy panic grass was on the fringe of farmland, and it was likely the grass blew over from neighbouring paddocks.

"In this case it probably is all the (farmland) properties in that area," he told ninemsn.

"We've just had that southerly change that came up… it's so light that it will blow around. One minute it's in one corner of the paddock and next moment it's somewhere else."

Mr Chuck said council was investigating but if the grass came from farmland it was an issue for the Department of Primary Industries.

"When it comes to farmland, it's a difficult one; to be quite honest - possibly these farmers can't control it."

Steve Jeffries from Wangaratta rural supplies store Hunter Group said the weeds were not uncommon this time of year.

"You get some dry weather and they take off fairly easy," he said.