NSW and Southern QLD Flood Disaster Areas for DRFA Category C, March 2021

March 2021 flooding in New South Wales and Southern Queensland led to the declaration of these Local Government Areas as disaster areas. The dataset lists LGAs activated under the joint Commonwealth-State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements for Category C assistance. It was published by the National Recovery and Resilience Agency and last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Mapping declared disaster zones for risk assessment based on the geospatial LGA boundaries.
• Analyzing eligibility for government disaster recovery funding based on the DRFA Category C activation status.
• Studying the geographic impact of a specific flood event based on the declared LGAs for March 2021.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats (GEOJSON, ESRI SHAPEFILE) for interoperability.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for reuse and redistribution.
• Sourced from the authoritative National Recovery and Resilience Agency, a government body.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.

Provenance

Source

National Recovery and Resilience Agency

Collection Method

Official declaration for disaster recovery funding arrangements.

Time Range

March 2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-26 17:37:58.271467; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Local Government Areas in New South Wales and Southern Queensland, Australia