Flood Disaster Declarations For NSW And Southern Queensland LGAs

National Drought and North Queensland Flood Response and Recovery Agency provides geospatial data on Local Government Areas declared for disaster funding following significant rainfall and flooding in March 2021. The dataset contains polygon boundaries for LGAs activated under Category C of the Commonwealth-State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements. It was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Map flood-affected LGAs using polygon geometry to visualize the spatial extent of the March 2021 disaster declaration.
• Analyze correlations between LGA boundaries and other socio-economic geospatial layers to assess disaster vulnerability.
• Validate eligibility for Category C DRFA assistance by checking if a specific location falls within a declared LGA boundary.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple standard geospatial formats including Shapefile and GeoJSON for interoperability.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license allowing for wide reuse.

Limitations

• Dataset lacks quantitative attributes like flood depth, damage estimates, or population counts for the declared LGAs.
• Temporal coverage is limited to a single event in March 2021, with no historical time series for comparison.

Provenance

Source

National Drought and North Queensland Flood Response and Recovery Agency

Collection Method

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Time Range

March 2021

Freshness

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Geography

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