A house has been destroyed and a man is missing following a fire north of Wagga Wagga this morning.

About 12.45am today (Thursday 28/ May 2015) emergency services were alerted to a house on fire in Coopers Lane, Coolamon, about 43km north of Wagga Wagga.

Fire fighters from Fire & Rescue NSW and the Rural Fire Service, attended the scene and found the premises well alight. The fire was extinguished but not before the building was destroyed.

The only person who lived in the home, a 68-year-old man, has not been found. A canvass of the man’s neighbours and family have been unable to determine if he was home at the time the fire broke out.

Police have advised the man’s family.

The building is still too dangerous to enter; however, investigators will search the scene once it is deemed safe later today. The cause of the fire is unknown.

A report will be prepared for the information of the Coroner.