A fire broke out near Bobara Road at Binalong on Monday night.
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Rural Fire Service NSW Yass superintendent Peter Dyce said 11 units and 26 crew members attended the blaze.
It started beside the road at about 9.30pm and was contained about an hour later.
Fire investigators were examining the area at the time of press yesterday morning.
It burnt 20 hectares of grassland. No property or livestock was affected.
Its cause is undetermined and suspicious.
Poacher's Pantry fire
Fire investigators have yet to determine the cause of a fire which damaged a vineyard near Poacher's Pantry restaurant on Sunday afternoon.
RFS superintendent Peter Dyce said the fire was reported at midday about 20 kilometres along Nanima Road.
Thirteen units and 28 crews attended the fire, as well as some ACT units.
The fire was declared contained 90 minutes later. He said it burnt 42 hectares.
Crews worked through the night mopping up and an assessment the following morning revealed no structural property damage.
However, the Wily Trout vineyard at Poacher's Pantry was damaged.
Café owner Susan Bruce said about two to three hectares of vines they had been retraining were burnt, as well as some paddock fencing.
“We were just incredibly lucky that A, there was no wind, and B, there was such a fantastic response so quickly from all the local brigades,” she said.
Some of their pinot vines were also damaged.
Customers were evacuated for about an hour, and Nanima Road was closed at the Barton Highway for about an hour.
Fire on Yass Valley border
A small fire broke out just off Coolalie Road, on the border of the Yass Valley and Upper Lachlan shires, late Thursday night.
Crews from the Jerrara and Broadway brigades were called to the scene at 11.23pm on Thursday and were able to bring the fire under control quickly.
The blaze destroyed 0.1 hectares of land and firefighters had left the scene after just one hour.
The fire is being treated as suspicious.