Tasmania's bushfire summary

TASMANIA'S BUSHFIRES AND ALERTS:

- About 70 fires are burning across Tasmania - 44 out of control and 60 in the north-west.

- Watch and act alerts, the second highest alert level, have been issued for Wynyard, Mawbanna and Mersey Forest.

- Among the biggest concerns are large fires that could threaten houses, bushwalkers and anglers near Cradle Mountain in the north, Lake McKenzie, Patons Road and February Plains.

- Windy, hot weather and dry conditions and air and low humidity is making it more difficult to fight fires.

- Tasmania's west coast, where the majority of bushfires are, is marked by steep and rocky terrain and difficult to access.