As the Lexton region looks to recover from the stress and devastation caused by the weekend's blaze, community members are hoping for a yearly highlight to remain in place in early 2020.
One of the areas hit hardest by the bushfires in the region was the site of Rainbow Serpent Festival, causing some anxiety the annual music and arts celebration won't go ahead.
Festival organisers are yet to confirm whether the popular festival will take place, instead informing its social media followers it takes time to assess its options.
"Our home may be blackened but our hearts are full of gratitude for the incredibly brave CFA volunteers, other emergency services and our site crew who battled and managed to save much of our vital infrastructure and site buildings in Friday's bushfire," the post read.
"Our sincere hope is that the festival can go ahead in some form over the January long weekend. We have temporarily halted ticket sales while we are assess the damage.
"We appreciate your patience as it will take a week to consult with experts and our stakeholders about the format of the 2020 festival. Of primary concern is your safety and that of the crew."
With the festival's immediate future up in the air, community members from Lexton and Beaufort voiced their desire to see Rainbow Serpent take place as planned.
Lexton Post Office staff member Christine stressed the festival's importance to the community.
"The Rainbow Festival is so important to our town," she said.
"It brings so many people here and is really crucial to all the business... it's something everyone here looks forward to all year.
"I think if it went ahead this year it'd provide a fantastic opportunity to raise some funds and give back to the people who were hit hardest by the fire.
"The festival works hard to help locals out and we want that to take place again this year."
These sentiments were echoed by Beaufort Progress Association president Liza Robinson, who told The Courier "it would be terrible" if the festival could not return in 2020.
"For the community it would be very disappointing if they weren't able to continue with the festival this year because it does bring a lot of income to the region," she said.
"Rainbow does so much for the community by offering a fantastic community grants program and everyone wants to see that continue. It'd be very sad for this area if it couldn't go ahead."
Pyrenees Shire chief executive officer Jim Noble said the shire would first focus on those directly impacted by the blaze before working with the festival.
"Right at the moment our thoughts are still with those directly impacted by the fire," he said.
"There are farmers that have lost stock as well as buildings and fencing that have been destroyed... it's a difficult time for those people and there's an immediacy in providing assistance to those people.
"We will have some discussions at some stage with Rainbow Serpent Festival organisers to assist them in assessing whether or not the festival will go ahead and what would be appropriate there but at this stage it's early days."