Rockhampton 2050 Climate Hazard Maps and Report for Urban Planning

Geoscience Australia modeled five natural hazards for the Rockhampton Regional Council under current and future climate conditions. Outputs include a technical report, hazard maps, and digital spatial data covering tropical cyclone wind, bushfire, storm tide, coastal erosion, and sea-level rise. The project was funded by the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Grants Program to evaluate urban planning practices.

Use Cases

• Assess regional flood risk for infrastructure planning based on storm tide and sea-level rise modeling
• Model future bushfire hazard zones for land-use zoning based on climate scenario projections
• Evaluate coastal erosion impacts for development setbacks based on spatial hazard datasets
• Incorporate tropical cyclone wind risk into emergency management plans based on modeled extreme wind data

Strengths

• Hazard modeling covers five specific natural hazards: tropical cyclone wind, bushfire, storm tide, coastal erosion, and sea-level rise
• Includes both current climate conditions and a future climate scenario for comparative analysis
• Outputs are multi-format, including a report, hazard maps, and digital spatial data

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 ML
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, focusing solely on the Rockhampton region

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Modeling of natural hazards using spatial techniques commissioned by Rockhampton Regional Council

Time Range

Current and a future climate scenario (likely 2050 timeframe)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 18:59:48.182135; freshness should be verified

Geography

Rockhampton Regional Council area, Queensland, Australia