No more active bushfires in New South Wales, after more than 240 days

There are no more active bushfires in New South Wales, Australia for the first time in more than 240 days.

"For the first time since early July 2019, there is currently no active bush or grass fires in #NSW," the NSW Rural Fire Service posted on Instagram.

BRETT HEMMINGS/GETTY IMAGES The NSW Rural Fire Service work on putting out a fire in November 2019.

"That's more than 240 days of fire activity for the state."

Since the fires began, at least 33 people have been killed, including firefighters, and about 11 million hectares of land had been scorched across NSW, Victoria and Queensland.

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Australian wildlife was also hugely impacted by the unprecedented bushfire season; it's estimated more than one billion animals were killed.

World Wildlife Fund policy manager Dr Stuart Blanch said the summer bushfire crisis had an enormous impact on koala habitats.

LISA MAREE WILLIAMS/GETTY IMAGES Koalas affected by the bushfires sit in a recovery pen at the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park.

Preliminary surveys in NSW's north indicated some populations had shrunk by 80 to 85 per cent following the fires, Blanch told a NSW parliamentary inquiry in February.

Some NSW koala populations could be extinct by 2050, or sooner, he added.

For locals in the state, the NSW government paid out more than A$37 million (NZ$38.6m) in disaster relief grants to primary producers affected by fires.