Fire crews have contained a fast-moving blaze that flared up west of Kalbar on Queensland's Scenic Rim, as well as battling bushfires on multiple fronts near Canungra in the Gold Coast hinterland.

Key points: No properties are under direct threat, but residents are urged to be ready to enact bushfire survival plans

No properties are under direct threat, but residents are urged to be ready to enact bushfire survival plans The Canungra fire is burning in difficult terrain in the Darlington Range

The Canungra fire is burning in difficult terrain in the Darlington Range A fire ban is in place across much of South East Queensland

The Queensland Fire and Emergency Service (QFES) downgraded its warning to advice at 5:40pm for a fire burning at Frazerview, west of Kalbar.

QFES said crews had contained the bushfire burning in the vicinity of Parsons Gate Road and Horan Road.

Aerial water bombers had joined firefighters to help contain the fast-moving blaze.

QFES said crews would monitor the area into the evening and there were no properties under threat.

It said people in the area would be affected by smoke, which reduced visibility and air quality.

Earlier on Wednesday, QFES advised Frazerview residents to evacuate in an easterly direction towards Kalbar.

Because of the drought conditions and a lack of water in private dams, heavy machinery is being used to bulldoze the fire front.

Advisories had been issued for other blazes in the region — at Milford, Merryvale and Roadvale.

Meanwhile, in the Gold Coast hinterland, a bushfire is spreading through rugged country near Canungra, with firefighters concerned conditions are gradually getting worse amid unusually hot temperatures and low humidity.

Fire near Canungra burning on multiple fronts

QFES also issued a watch and act warning for the bushfire in the rural area of Sarabah, south of Canungra, urging people in the area to prepare to leave.

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The fire near Canungra is burning on multiple fronts and has come close to homes in some places.

The Bureau of Meteorology said the day's heat peaked at Canungra at 32.1 degrees Celsius just before 2:00pm.

Rural Fire Service area director Kaye Healing said unpredictable winds were blowing embers beyond containment lines.

"At the moment we are just focussing on the breakouts," she said.

"We burned out areas last night to strengthen containment lines but unfortunately erratic wind behaviour that we are experiencing is pushing burning embers over those tracks, picking them up, dropping them into the unburned ground and off it goes again."

Rural Fire Service (RFS) spokesman Alan Gillespie said the fire near Canungra was burning across 500 hectares and reinforcements were called in.

Mr Gillespie said 69 firefighting appliances with over 220 firefighters were committed to the blazes near Sarabah, Frazerview and Merryvale.

"The vast majority of those are our volunteer firefighters from the RFS," he said.

"Our resources have been stretched to the limit [but] at the moment we are managing."

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Watch Duration: 48 seconds 48 s Fire burning close to properties around Canungra

Mr Gillespie said conditions going towards Friday were "potentially going to be just as bad, if not worse than today".

"We have got very high fire danger tomorrow with potentially severe fire danger on Friday and Saturday is going to be very high as well," he said.

'I think we're on top of it'

Grazier Ken Beumont has cattle and a timber planation in the Sarabah fire zone.

He said he had been doing back burns for the past three days and this morning had to do a firebreak around his house.

A local landowner near Canungra battling the bushfire as it approaches his property. ( ABC News )

"[We're] not nervous because the firefighters are here — if we were here by ourselves it'd be a bit nerve-wracking, but because the rural boys are here, it's all good," he said.

"I think we're on top of it — at this stage we haven't lost anything — just grass and a good burn every now and again is a good thing."

He said there were fears they had lost their timber plantations, which were planted 25 years ago.

"They've got another 25 years to go before they're ready for maturity, so it'd be a crying shame," he said.

"We thought we were going to lose them yesterday — we had a bit of stress there — but we barrelled on and I think we've knocked it over and not lost any."

Fire warnings issued across south-east

A severe fire danger has been issued for Queensland's south-east coast and the Darling Downs and Granite Belt and a very high fire danger for remaining eastern districts.

A fire ban will also be in place from Wednesday until midday on Friday in Ipswich, Somerset, Lockyer Valley, Scenic Rim, Logan and the Gold Coast.

Under a local fire ban, open fires are prohibited and all permits to light fire which have been issued in areas will been cancelled.