Floods in Australia


Australia has had numerous floods in the last 10 years, many of which have taken out homes, wildlife and many habitats.
Floods that have occurred in the country of Australia:
DateLocationStateFatalitiesNotes
1806MelbourneVIC4
1820MaitlandNSW
1852GundagaiNSW89
1863Melbourne VIC1
1867Hawkesbury River NSW12
1869BallaratVIC2
1891Melbourne VIC1
1893Brisbane floodQLD11
1893MaitlandNSW9
1900Western Australian floodsWA
1909Western Victorian floodsVIC4
1913MaitlandNSW1
1916ClermontQLD65
1923AdelaideSA3
1926Southwestern AustraliaWA
1927Wollombi, [New South Wales|Wollombi]NSW
1929Tasmanian FloodsTAS22
1930MaitlandNSW
1931MaitlandNSW
1934Yarra RiverVIC35
1947June 1947 Tasmanian floodsTAS
1949MaitlandNSW
1950Maitland, Gippsland, West QueenslandNSW, VIC, QLD1
1951MaitlandNSW
1952MaitlandNSW
1955Maitland floodNSW14
1955All southern states WA, SA, VIC, NSW, TAS2
19561956 [Murray River flood|Murray River flood]NSW, VIC, SA
1970All eastern states QLD, NSW, VIC, TAS16
1971Canberra floodACT7
1971Tadpole floodNSW
1974Brisbane floodQLD16
February 1984West DaptoNSWnot known
1986SydneyNSW6
1990East CoastNSW7
1996Queensland and New South WalesNSW & QLD4
1998Katherine Floods|Katherine]
Townsville Floods|Townsville]
Wollongong
NT, QLD, NSW3
June 2007June 2007 [Hunter Region and Central Coast storms|Hunter Valley/Maitland floods]NSW10
June 2007Gippsland FloodsVIC
February 2008Mackay floodsQLD
September 2010Victorian floods (Sept)VIC
March 2010Queensland floods (March)QLD
December 20102010 [Gascoyne River flood|Carnarvon/Gascoyne (December)]WA
December 2010January 2011Queensland floods (DecJan)QLD35
January 20112011 Victorian Floods (Jan)VIC2
August 2011Gippsland VIC1
FebruaryMarch 2012Eastern Australia NSW, VIC, QLD3
March 2012Gippsland and Koo wee rupVIC0
JanuaryFebruary 20132013 Eastern Australia Floods (Jan)QLD, NSW6
April 20152015 Hunter Valley/Central Coast/Sydney FloodsNSW8
May 2015SouthEast Queensland Flash FloodsQLD5
June 2016Tasmanian FloodsTAS3
September 2016Central West and Riverina FloodsNSW1
February 2017Western Australian FloodsWA2
Late March 2017Eastern Australian Floods caused by Cyclone DebbieSouthern Queensland, Northern NSW12
JanuaryFebruary 2019Townsville floodQueensland5
February 2020Widespread flooding in Sydney basin and the Blue Mountains, flooding in central west to the north of NSW and flooding caused by Tropical Cyclone Damien in KarrathaNSW, WA0
March 2021Widespread flooding in the Sydney basin and the Mid North Coast of NSW. Extending into South East QueenslandNSW, South East Queensland3
9–10 June 2021Widespread flash flooding across Gippsland. 160,000 properties blacked out, some for 4 days or more. Traralgon in the Latrobe Valley was one of the hardest-hit places with 200 homes evacuated.Victoria2
November 2021Central QueenslandQueensland
January 2022Wide Bay-Burnett, Fraser Coast and Gympie Regions, caused by ex-Tropical Cyclone SethQueensland3
February 2022Eastern Australia floodsQueensland, NSW23, 1 missing
March 2022Eastern Australia floodsSouth East Queensland, NSW4
July 20222022 New [South Wales floods|New South Wales]NSW1
October 2022South eastern Australia floodsVIC, TAS, NSW7
October 2023GippslandVIC
December 2023Cairns FloodQLD
JanuaryFebruary 2025North QueenslandQLD2
May 2025New South WalesNSW5