Floods in Australia

This is a list of notable recorded floods that have occurred in the country of Australia.

1893 Brisbane flood
Flooding in Newcastle in 2007
Queensland 2010-2011 floods

Australia
DateLocationState(s)FatalitiesNotes
1806MelbournebNSW4
1820MaitlandNSW
1852GundagaiNSW89
December 1863Melbourne (December)VIC1[1]
1869BallaratVIC2[2]
1891Melbourne (July)VIC1[3]
1893Brisbane floodQLD11[4][5]
1893MaitlandNSW9
1900Western Australian floodsWA
1909Western Victorian floodsVIC4
1913MaitlandNSW1[6]
1916ClermontQLD65
1923AdelaideSA3
1926Southwestern AustraliaWA
1927WollombiNSW
1929Tasmanian FloodsTAS22
1930MaitlandNSW
1931MaitlandNSW
1934Yarra RiverVIC35
1947June 1947 Tasmanian floodsTAS
1949MaitlandNSW
1950Maitland, Gippsland, West QueenslandNSW, VIC, QLD1[7]
1951MaitlandNSW
1952MaitlandNSW
1955Maitland floodNSW14
1955All southern states (August)WA, SA, VIC, NSW, TAS2
1956Murray River floodNSW, VIC, SA
1970All eastern states (December)QLD, NSW, VIC, TAS16
1971Canberra floodACT7
1971MaitlandNSW
1974Brisbane floodQLD16
1984 FebWest DaptoNSWnot known[8]
1986SydneyNSW6
1990East CoastNSW7
1996Queensland and New South WalesNSW & QLD4
1998Katherine
Townsville
Wollongong		NT, QLD, NSW3[9] [10]
June 2007Hunter Valley/Maitland floodsNSW10
June 2007Gippsland FloodsVIC
February 2008Mackay floodsQLD
September 2010Victorian floods (Sept)VIC
March 2010Queensland floods (March)QLD
December 2010Carnarvon/Gascoyne (December)WA
December 2010 – January 2011Queensland floods (Dec – Jan)QLD35[11]
January 20112011 Victorian Floods (Jan)VIC2[12][13]
August 2011Gippsland (August)VIC1[14]
February – March 2012Eastern Australia (Feb – Mar)NSW, VIC, QLD3[15][16][17]
March 2012Gippsland and KoowerupVIC0
January – February 20132013 Eastern Australia Floods (Jan)QLD, NSW6
April 20152015 Hunter Valley/Central Coast/Sydney FloodsNSW8[18]
May 2015South – East Queensland Flash FloodsQLD5[19]
September 2016Central West and Riverina FloodsNSW1[20]
February 2017Western Australian FloodsWA2[21]
Late March 2017Eastern Australian Floods caused by Cyclone DebbieSouthern Queensland, Northern NSW(As of 8 April 2017) 12[22]
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

References
  1. The Argus. 28 December 1863
  2. The Great Flood of Ballarat. pg 6. The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser. 23 October 1869
  3. The Floods in Australia: Heavy Losses Revealed. Launceston Examiner. 18 July 1891
  4. Whitaker (2005), 30.
  5. Kenny (n.d.).
  6. https://downloads.newcastle.edu.au/library/cultural%20collections/pdf/Souvenir_of_the_Maitland_Flood_1913.pdf
  7. pg 1. The West Australian. Thursday 6 April 1950
  8. "The West Dapto flood of February 1984: Rainfall characteristics and channel changes". ResearchGate.
  9. "Tropical Cyclone Les", Bureau of Meteorology
  10. "Flood - Sydney and Wollongong, 1998 - Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub". knowledge.aidr.org.au.
  11. "Death toll from Queensland Floods". Queensland Police Service. 24 January 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
  12. "Missing boy's body found". ABC News. Australia. 18 January 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
  13. "Victoria flash floods claim first victim". ninemsn.com.au. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
  14. Heard, Hamish; O'Connell, Brigid (13 August 2011). "Gippsland farmer dies in floodwaters in bid to save cattle". Sunday Herald-Sun. Melbourne. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  15. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-19. Retrieved 2012-08-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  16. "Two dead in flood crisis gripping parts of Victoria, NSW and Queensland". Herald-Sun. AAP. 5 March 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  17. "Australian flood clean-up begins". Radio Australia. 10 March 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  18. "Storm leaves eight dead". Daily Mail. London. 21 April 2015.
  19. "Four missing as floods devastate Tasmania; NSW mops up". ABC News. Australia. 6 June 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  20. "Body found near Forbes identified as missing Burcher man Robert Linnane". ABC News. Australia. 6 October 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  21. Morrison, Lisa. "WA floods: Second man's body recovered as receding waters reveal extent of damage". ABC. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  22. "Cyclone Debbie: Floods in NSW and Queensland claim more lives". The Courier Mail. Retrieved 1 April 2017.

Further reading
  • Devin, L.B. and D.L. Purcell (1983) Flooding in Australia Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service ISBN 0-644-02627-8 : (Water 2000 : consultants report no. 11)(Department of Resources and Energy).

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