VICTORIAN Premier Ted Baillieu will consider a Black Saturday bushfires study which says clearing trees is more effective than burn-offs.

A joint Australian-US scientific team which researched the bushfires said vegetation must be cleared from nearby houses if the impact of any future bushfires is to be reduced.

The scientists found that prescribed burning, one of many recommendations of the royal commission into the Black Saturday fires, was not the best way to protect houses.

They said clearing vegetation within 40m of houses was twice as effective as prescribed burning.

Mr Baillieu said the 67 royal commission recommendations formed the backbone of the government's response to Black Saturday, but the new research would be analysed.

"The royal commission looked at these issues in some detail and we have acted on the royal commission's recommendations. I don't want to isolate any particular piece of research, but there's no doubt reducing the fuel load around any home is a priority," he told reporters in Melbourne.

"I haven't seen that study, I'm sure that study will be looked at by CFA and other agencies and we'll take any further advice."

The Black Saturday fires killed 173 people and destroyed more than 2,000 houses in February 2009.