Two bushfires have broken out in eastern Victoria as heatwave forecasts raise fears of a horror fire season.
A 700-hectare blaze broke out near Mallacoota in East Gippsland on Saturday and a fire stretching 50 hectares has been burning for several days southeast of Orbost.
Both fires are burning in national parkland and are not threatening properties at present, Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) state duty officer Peter Billing said.
He also said he expected DSE firefighters to bring the blazes under control relatively quickly.
"The fires are going but conditions are benign and they should be contained in a little while without too much trouble," he told AAP on Sunday.
However, the current heatwave - the first of the season - that will see temperatures above 30 degrees hit much of Victoria over the next week would "rapidly change the bushfire situation", he said.
"The rain that we had in September and October is rapidly drying out and will do so over the next fortnight," he said.
"We can't see when the next rain event will be, there is nothing forecast at the moment.
"It was still raining this time last year, it didn't get dry until January, and the hottest part of the year is not far away."
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