Mel and Tristan Meyers, along with their two children, have endured three floods at the property in addition to this week's fires, but the destruction from the latest disaster may be too much to bear for them.

The aftermath of the inferno has been likened to a bad dream, that you can't wake up from, by Mrs Meyers.

"I know it's cosmetic and it'll come back, but it doesn't feel like home and I honestly don't think I can put my kids back through this again," she said.

"I haven't brought them back out, they haven't come out, they haven't seen it and I dont know."

The Meyers' house may have survived the destruction of Saturday evening, but they've lost almost everything else.

Two of their three horses perished in the blaze, while several vehicles, including a ute which was the family's pride and joy and held significant sentimental value, along with their shed went up in flames.

It's a similar tale told at properties up and down Tumbarumba and Little Billabong roads.

In spite of how much the family has lost, Mrs Meyers says she's just grateful that her family escaped unscathed from the blaze.

When the fire rolled through Carabost on Saturday, she was at the Holbrook pool with her children, well away from the danger.

Had it struck later in the night though, it could have been a very different tale.

"It was lucky the time of day it was," Mrs Meyers said.

"Had it have been the middle of the night, we probably wouldn't have got out."

Miraculously, firefighters managed to save the house, despite a skip bin right next to it being torched by the ferocious blaze.

But it's still a long road back to any sense of normality for the family.

It could be up to a month before the family can live at the property again, Mrs Meyers' sister-in-law Emmily said, with the home's electricity and water supply wiped out by the disaster.

"You can always hope for sooner, but looking at it realistically it's going to be a minimum of a month before you can do anything," she said.