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Fire officials are welcoming weather forecasts predicting widespread rainfall in the coming days, but warn the bushfire crisis is far from over. As of Friday afternoon, the ACT was expected to receive between 10 and 20 millimetres of rain on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Bureau of Meteorology forecaster, Helen Kirkup, said the cumulative three-day total could be up to 50mm in some areas. "[Later in the week,] it's going to become a bit more sporadic - we've got Tuesday looking at between three and 10mm, and Wednesday between two and 6mm," Ms Kirkup said. "[But] some people will start missing out by that stage." Ms Kirkup said the NSW Central Coast and Illawarra region were forecast to expect the most intense rainfalls in all the state overnight on Friday. The weather system causing the deluge would "shift focus" to NSW's south-east on Sunday and Monday, with some areas forecast to receive between 50 and 90mm, she said. "There's still a good chance there'll be some reasonable showers around [the South Coast on Tuesday and Wednesday] but it just becomes a bit more iffy," Ms Kirkup said. "They could still be seeing 10 to 20mm by Tuesday." A spokesman for the NSW Rural Fire Service said crews hoped rainfall would hit fire grounds in their entirety in the coming days. "Little bits of rain" and humidity could actually hinder firefighting efforts, as wet vegetation rendered backburning efforts fruitless, the spokesman said. "We're not out of the woods yet. There are still active fires, and there are likely to be active fires after the weekend," the spokesman said. "[Also,] we're certainly not at the end of the fire season - we've still got a number of weeks to go." The Big Jack Mountain fire, the Border fire, and the Clear Range and Calabash fires were most in need of rainfall, the spokesman said. Both the spokesman and Ms Kirkup reiterated the flood risk the rain also posed, particularly to properties blackened by bushfires. On Thursday, Ms Kirkup warned the ACT's mountainous areas were at risk. About 3pm on Friday, the Bureau of Meteorology issued a flood watch warning extending from the Brunswick to Bega rivers. Speaking at Tharwa on Friday afternoon, ACT Rural Fire Service chief officer, Joe Murphy, said calmer conditions had allowed crews to do "very active, very close firefighting" on the Orroral Valley fire. "On the eastern part of the range we actually have a ground crew walking the edge of the fire trail, looking for any hot spots which are not visible [to air crews]," Mr Murphy said. "[They're] turning logs over, digging them out, and actually doing a really thorough job to make sure [the fire is] well and truly out." READ MORE: Despite the good progress, the northwestern and southeastern edges of the Orroral Valley fire remained active, Mr Murphy said. Fire crews were already planning for later next week, after the majority of the rain was expected to have passed. "If we [see] that fire weather return - those north-westerly, dry, hot, winds - well, the southern part of the ACT will be out there," Mr Murphy said. "We've still got a heap of fire left to go. " As of Friday afternoon, the Orroral Valley fire had burnt between 84,000 and 85,000 hectares of land, which is a third of the territory's total area.

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