Flood-Affected Local Government Areas in North Queensland 2019

Fourteen Local Government Areas in North and Far North Queensland were declared disaster areas due to a 2019 monsoon trough and flooding. The dataset provides their geospatial boundaries for mapping and analysis. It was published by the National Drought and North Queensland Flood Response and Recovery Agency and last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Map declared disaster LGAs for the 2019 North Queensland floods using polygon geometry.
• Analyze regional flood impact by overlaying LGA boundaries with population or infrastructure data.
• Identify eligible areas for Category C disaster recovery funding under the DRFA.
• Perform spatial joins with other datasets using LGA names or boundary features.

Strengths

• Covers 14 specific LGAs declared for disaster assistance.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including Shapefile and GeoJSON.
• Clear temporal scope for the flood event from January 25 to February 14, 2019.

Limitations

• Unknown row count and dataset size.
• No attribute columns (e.g., population, damage estimates) are described, only boundaries.
• Data is static for a single past event, not a time-series of disasters.

Provenance

Source

National Drought and North Queensland Flood Response and Recovery Agency.

Collection Method

Declared under the Commonwealth-State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA).

Time Range

Flood event period: 25 January – 14 February 2019.

Freshness

Last updated in April 2026, though the event is from 2019.

Geography

North and Far North Queensland, Australia.