Insurance claims for the bushfires in Australia have reached £370m (A$700m) while the government has committed another £1bn (A$2b) to the recovery effort.
The fires have raged since September, killing 25 people and destroying 2,000 homes as an area more than three times the size of Wales became engulfed in flames. At least half a billion animals are also thought to have died,
The first indications of the financial impacts of the fires paint a grim picture to go along with the death and destruction.
The Insurance Council of Australia said the estimated damage bill had doubled over the weekend, with insurance claims reaching almost £370m.
People have also reached for their wallets, with one Facebook fundraiser for those affected by the wildfires collecting £22m as of Tuesday morning.
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Meanwhile Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's funding announcement came amid fierce criticism from many Australians who say he has been too slow to respond to the crisis.
He has also faced backlash for downplaying the need for his government to address climate change, which experts say helps supercharge the blazes.
The fires, fuelled by drought and the country's hottest and driest year on record started months earlier than is typical for Australia's annual wildfire season.
In New South Wales 130 fires were still burning on Tuesday - around 50 of which were uncontrolled.
The day's cooler weather, alongside rain in some parts, was providing thousands of exhausted firefighters a "psychological and emotional" reprieve as they scrambled to strengthen containment lines around the blazes before temperatures rose again, NSW Rural Fire Service commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said.
"It really is about shoring up protection to limit the damage potential and the outbreak of these fires over the coming days," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
The rain was not heavy enough to extinguish the blazes.
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Victoria state Emergency Services Minister Lisa Neville said on Monday at least 200 millimetres of rain would need to fall in a short time to snuff out the fires - around 20 times what has fallen across the region in the past day.
And officials warned that Australia's wildfire season - which generally lasts through March - was nowhere near its end.
The rain was also complicating firefighters' attempts to strategically backburn certain areas and was making the ground slippery for fire trucks.
