SOME of the towns worst hit by Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires will be open to the public later this month, police hope. 

A police spokesman on Sunday said it was expected residents from Marysville, where at least 45 people died in the devastating fires, should be able to return home on March 20.

From Monday March 23, members of the general public would be able to visit towns destroyed in the Marysville complex of fires under the plan, including Cambarville and Narbethong.

Many of the places devastated in the Black Saturday fires, which killed at least 210 people, have been off-limits to residents and members of the public because they were considered crime scenes.

Police Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) teams have been scouring bushfire areas looking for human remains.
Some people who live in bushfire-hit areas have been demanding the right to return to their burnt-out properties to see if anything was left.

Police said the DVI teams would begin a final sweep of the area on Wednesday.

"They are hoping to have it completed by Friday the 20th. That is dependent on what they find, weather conditions and anything that comes in," the spokesman said.

"They are hoping to release the area back to the residents on Friday the 20th, give them the weekend to look at their places, and then open it up to the public on Monday and drop the roadblocks completely.

"That is the plan at this stage. It is obviously weather dependent, and also depending on what they find and things like that," he said.

Aerial photographs of Marysville following the February 7 bushfires showed much of the tourist town had been destroyed by the blazes.

Meanwhile police Deputy Commissioner Kieran Walshe said the identity of five bodies have been confirmed by the coroner, the ABC reported.

"There were five that were released on Friday and my understanding is the coroner will continue to do that as the evidence regarding identification is presented to the coroner," Mr Walshe reportedly said.