Congarinni: After spending most of her life as a landowner in the state's mid-north coast, Helen Rushton says she can't help but feel "forgotten" in times of natural disaster.

"Up in the country we keep saying NSW is Newcastle, Sydney and Wollongong. Because that's where the main resources go and we understand that because that's where the population is," Ms Rushton said. "But it's up here, at times like this, when we need the resources."

Congarinni property owners Owen and Helen Rushton have been watching the bushfire as it approaches their property near Macksville Credit:Wolter Peeters

From a hill on her Congarinni farm, just outside of Macksville, she and her husband have been watching the Kian Road fire inch ever closer since Friday, when the skies above glowed orange and she and her family felt seriously under threat.

"People talk about climate change and the politics ... the political part of it is we need resources for when these types of incidents occur," she said.