Aircraft are searching for new bushfires from lightning strikes during overnight thunderstorms, with NSW firefighters continuing to battle dozens of blazes across the state.

More than 65 fires were burning at 9am on Monday, 25 of them uncontained. More than 1300 firefighters remain in the field across NSW.

Overall conditions have eased compared with the danger faced in recent weeks, according to the Rural Fire Service, with warnings reduced to very high for southern regions and high across the rest of the state.

An 80,000-hectare fire at Myall Creek Road in Bora Ridge, south of Casino, rose to emergency warning level on Monday, with all others at advice level.

Residents ordered to ‘leave now’

The RFS has advised people in the Woombah or Iluka areas who were planning to leave or unprepared to leave now towards Grafton.

Thunderstorms at the weekend brought much-needed rain to parts of the state, but also lightning strikes which may have started new fires.

“We saw some rainfall from thunderstorms in parts of the east and northeast of #NSW over the weekend. Similar conditions today with thunderstorms and showers increasing during the day,” the Bureau of Meteorology NSW tweeted.

 

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