Huge smoke plumes from cluster of wildfires on Australia's east coast. pic.twitter.com/2PWPjIo1Yx— Dakota Smith (@weatherdak) November 7, 2019
The New South Wales Northern Rivers region has been experiencing widespread bushfires since September 2019. According to the NSW Rural Fire Service est. 1,055,168 hectares were on fire on 8-9 November - that's over 2,607,376 acres.
On 9-10 November est. 195,347 hectares on the Mid-North Coast were alight - that's another 482,713 acres.
Elsewhere, between 8-10 November the Tenterfield area had 48,991 hectares burning and another 29 local government areas were also battling bushfires.
Today 41 NSW local government areas officially have a High fire danger rating and another 26 have a Very High fire danger rating, with no rain forecast except for 1mm between Albury and the coast on the NSW-Vic border.
As of 12.30am there were 74 bush fires still burning across the state, 43 are still not under control, 1 fire remains at Emergency Warning and 15 are at Watch and Act.
The end is not yet in sight.
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