More than 40 bushfires burned across South Australia on Sunday, scorching hundreds of hectares and threatening properties.
The spate of fires came before Wednesday's start to the official bushfire season in most districts and more than a month before summer.
Country Fire Service volunteers battled grass fires fuelled by tricky weather conditions, including wind gusts of up to 100km/h and dry vegetation.
The biggest fire at Worlds End, in the state's mid-north, destroyed 280 hectares of stubble before being contained, but was still being monitored for flare-ups on Monday.
The CFS warned of a risk to life and property as the fire moved in a southeasterly and easterly direction and urged residents to check their homes for any embers, particularly in roof spaces and gutters.
"It wasn't necessarily the temperature that made it the high fire danger, but just how dry the grass was, and high the wind speed was," a CFS spokeswoman said.
Another fire burned through pine plantations at Mount Crawford in the Mount Lofty Ranges.
On Monday, CFS crews were also still monitoring fires burning in the state's far north indigenous lands and the Gawler Rangers.
Most of the fires were sparked by burnoffs which rekindled.
