The Currowan fire started from a lightning strike on November 26 and burned for 74 punishing days.
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By the time it was finally out on February 8, it had turned almost half-a-million hectares of the South Coast to ash.
The fire destroyed hundreds of homes and left residents traumatised.
Kangaroo Valley firefighter Ed Allen - who ended up defending his own home from the devastating blaze which ripped into the Southern Highlands in early January - described the sheer size of the fire like this: "I've been fighting this fire for weeks, and when I first started fighting it I was driving a 300km round trip to down near Batemans Bay. It's the same fire and now it's right here."
A year on, we look back at the harrowing photos from the bushfire emergency and its devastating aftermath.
