NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) ranger Mandy Smith said the fire is under control. 

The fire is believed to have started on Friday, August 30 from an escaped campground fire. 

Mandy thanked the efforts of NSW NPWS local crews from the Hastings and Macleay areas, the NSW Rural Fire Service volunteer brigades and contract aircraft which assisted with water bombing. 

Mandy said the benign weather conditions and rain predicted on Monday and Tuesday had helped to quell the fire, and assisted fire crews with their mop up operations. 

An estimated 450 hectares has been burnt, with various degrees of fire intensity throughout the ground.

Mandy said fires can have an impact on native animals through injury and loss of habitat.

“Native animals can escape fire by fleeing to ‘unburnt islands’ within a burn area, or to surrounding unburnt vegetation,” she said. 

“Insects, reptiles and small mammals may be able to hide underground.

“Animals that live in trees can move to treetops and escape low-to-moderate intensity fires.”

Fortunately, Mandy said, there was minimal canopy scorch to the trees in the Sandy Point fire but some heath vegetation had experienced high intensity fire.

A team from the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital and NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service will enter the fire ground, to assess damage to habitat and rescue injured wildlife.

The Diamond Head Camping Ground is open to the public. 

For future updates on fires visit the Fires Near Me website.