Flood-Affected Local Government Areas in North Queensland 2019

Fourteen Local Government Areas in North and Far North Queensland were officially declared disaster zones following a major monsoon trough and flooding event from January 25 to February 14, 2019. The dataset provides the geospatial boundaries for these areas, created by the National Recovery and Resilience Agency. It was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Map flood-affected LGA boundaries against population data to estimate impacted communities.
• Analyze spatial proximity of declared LGAs to identify regional clusters of severe flood damage.
• Overlay LGA polygons with rainfall or river gauge data to correlate administrative declarations with physical event metrics.

Strengths

• Contains 14 distinct Local Government Area boundaries.
• Covers a specific, well-documented disaster event with a defined date range (25 Jan - 14 Feb 2019).

Limitations

• Dataset contains only boundary definitions, no attribute data on flood depth, damage costs, or population impact.
• Limited to a single historical event, reducing utility for longitudinal or comparative disaster studies.

Provenance

Source

National Recovery and Resilience Agency, Australia.

Collection Method

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

Time Range

Event period: 25 January 2019 – 14 February 2019.

Freshness

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Geography

North and Far North Queensland, Australia.