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Brisbane flood map and planning overlays by suburb

Flood, bushfire and heritage mapping compared across 195 suburbs in Brisbane City. Every one has some mapped flood. Check an address to see what touches a single lot.

Free map of every overlay on the lot, then a PDF report from $9. The suburb shading below compares suburbs; it does not tell you about one property.

Council mapBrisbane City

Acacia Ridge Albion Alderley Algester Annerley Anstead Archerfield Ascot Ashgrove Aspley Auchenflower Bald Hills Balmoral Banks Creek Banyo Bardon Bellbowrie Belmont Boondall Bowen Hills Bracken Ridge Bridgeman Downs Brighton Brisbane Airport Brisbane City Brookfield Bulimba Burbank Calamvale Camp Hill Cannon Hill Carina Carina Heights Carindale Carseldine Chandler Chapel Hill Chelmer Chermside Chermside West Chuwar Clayfield Coopers Plains Coorparoo Corinda Darra Deagon Doolandella Drewvale Durack Dutton Park Eagle Farm East Brisbane Eight Mile Plains Ellen Grove England Creek Enoggera Enoggera Reservoir Everton Park Fairfield Ferny Grove Fig Tree Pocket Fitzgibbon Forest Lake Fortitude Valley Gaythorne Geebung Gordon Park Graceville Grange Greenslopes Gumdale Hamilton Hawthorne Heathwood Hemmant Hendra Herston Highgate Hill Holland Park Holland Park West Inala Indooroopilly Jamboree Heights Jindalee Kalinga Kangaroo Point Karana Downs Karawatha Kedron Kelvin Grove Kenmore Kenmore Hills Keperra Kholo Kuraby Lake Manchester Larapinta Lota Lutwyche Lytton MacGregor Mackenzie Manly Manly West Mansfield McDowall Middle Park Milton Mitchelton Moggill Moorooka Morningside Mount Coot-tha Mount Crosby Mount Gravatt Mount Gravatt East Mount Ommaney Murarrie Nathan New Farm Newmarket Newstead Norman Park Northgate Nudgee Nudgee Beach Nundah Oxley Paddington Pallara Parkinson Petrie Terrace Pinjarra Hills Pinkenba Port Of Brisbane Pullenvale Ransome Red Hill Richlands Riverhills Robertson Rochedale Rocklea Runcorn Salisbury Sandgate Seven Hills Seventeen Mile Rocks Sherwood Shorncliffe Sinnamon Park South Brisbane Spring Hill Stafford Stafford Heights St Lucia Stones Corner Stretton Sumner Sunnybank Sunnybank Hills Taigum Taringa Tarragindi Teneriffe Tennyson The Gap Tingalpa Toowong Upper Brookfield Upper Kedron Upper Mount Gravatt Virginia Wacol Wakerley Wavell Heights West End Westlake Willawong Wilston Windsor Wishart Woolloongabba Wooloowin Wynnum Wynnum West Yeerongpilly Yeronga Zillmere

Not drawn at this scale: Bulwer, Cowan Cowan, Kooringal, Moreton Bay, Moreton Island.

Council readout

195 / 195
suburbs with mapped flood
148 / 195
suburbs with bushfire-prone land
2,685
heritage places
Rocklea
highest flood share, 99%

Hover or tap a suburb on the map to see its figures. Tap again to open it.

Shading is the share of each suburb's area inside mapped overlays. It compares suburbs; whether one property is affected depends on where it sits, so check the exact address.

How Brisbane City suburbs compare

Suburb-wide shares and counts. They do not decide the result for any one property.

Most mapped flood

  1. Rocklea99%
  2. Newstead94%
  3. Nudgee Beach92%
  4. Pinkenba92%
  5. Tennyson84%
  6. Hemmant82%
  7. Chelmer81%
  8. Fairfield79%

Most bushfire-prone land

  1. Upper Brookfield98%
  2. Nathan94%
  3. Karawatha93%
  4. Mount Crosby92%
  5. Chuwar89%
  6. Burbank88%
  7. Kenmore Hills87%
  8. Gumdale83%

Most heritage places

  1. Brisbane City194
  2. Fortitude Valley123
  3. Spring Hill119
  4. New Farm106
  5. South Brisbane76
  6. Woolloongabba60
  7. Clayfield59
  8. Windsor57

Steepest median slope

  1. Upper Brookfield34%
  2. Chuwar18%
  3. Mount Crosby18%
  4. Pullenvale17%
  5. Red Hill16%
  6. Highgate Hill15%
  7. Kenmore Hills15%
  8. Bardon15%

Flood and bushfire rankings count only suburbs where LayeredGeo holds and could measure the mapping. Places with almost no residents are left out (Banks Creek, Brisbane Airport, Bulwer, Cowan Cowan, Eagle Farm, England Creek, Enoggera Reservoir, Kooringal, Lake Manchester, Larapinta, Lytton, Moreton Bay, Mount Coot-tha, Port Of Brisbane).

Brisbane City Council's own flood and planning maps

The council's maps are the official source for a single property. This page compares suburbs and puts every overlay for an address in one place.

Flood Awareness Map and FloodWise Property Report

The likelihood of river, creek, overland flow and storm tide flooding for an address, and a free technical report with flood levels and the minimum habitable floor level.

Open the council map ↗How to use it →

City Plan online

The zone and City Plan overlays, including the Flood overlay, for a lot.

Open the council map ↗How to use it →

LayeredGeo is not part of the council or the state government.

All 195 Brisbane City suburbs

Select a suburb for its full profile. "Not mapped" means we hold no mapping for it there; "not measured" means we hold it but could not measure the share. Neither means no risk.

195 suburbs
Acacia Ridge 22% 3% 6
Albion 57% 0% 35
Alderley 19% 25% 18
Algester 9% 21% -
Annerley 7% <1% 31
Anstead 23% 81% 1
Archerfield 65% 1% 3
Ascot 10% 0% 38
Ashgrove 23% 32% 39
Aspley 19% 16% 9
Auchenflower 38% 0% 17
Bald Hills 69% 10% 7
Balmoral 15% 0% 7
Banks Creek 4% 100% -
Banyo 31% 7% 14
Bardon 14% 48% 21
Bellbowrie 37% 44% 2
Belmont 10% 77% -
Boondall 58% 39% 5
Bowen Hills 49% 0% 29
Bracken Ridge 17% 7% 3
Bridgeman Downs 13% 36% 1
Brighton 58% 16% 7
Brisbane Airport 89% 12% -
Brisbane City 52% 0% 194
Brookfield 12% 76% 10
Bulimba 69% 0% 20
Bulwer <1% 100% 1
Burbank 17% 88% -
Calamvale 19% 21% 1
Camp Hill 7% 22% 18
Cannon Hill 36% 24% 8
Carina 26% 11% 2
Carina Heights 10% 59% 1
Carindale 22% 27% 1
Carseldine 22% 15% 3
Chandler 24% 74% -
Chapel Hill 13% 65% 3
Chelmer 81% <1% 20
Chermside 17% 0% 6
Chermside West 11% 27% -
Chuwar 39% 89% 3
Clayfield 14% 0% 59
Coopers Plains 46% 8% 6
Coorparoo 28% 4% 42
Corinda 45% 27% 18
Cowan Cowan <1% 100% 3
Darra 12% 8% 5
Deagon 39% 4% 5
Doolandella 22% 66% 1
Drewvale 28% 76% -
Durack 34% 26% -
Dutton Park 22% 0% 21
Eagle Farm 42% 0% 8
East Brisbane 37% 0% 39
Eight Mile Plains 16% 22% 5
Ellen Grove 10% 59% -
England Creek 5% 100% -
Enoggera 11% 62% 17
Enoggera Reservoir 8% 99% 4
Everton Park 17% 17% 4
Fairfield 79% 0% 4
Ferny Grove 12% 48% 1
Fig Tree Pocket 57% 66% 1
Fitzgibbon 42% 22% -
Forest Lake 11% 29% 1
Fortitude Valley 32% 0% 123
Gaythorne 12% 5% 6
Geebung 32% 0% 2
Gordon Park 24% 0% 2
Graceville 71% 0% 27
Grange 14% 24% 9
Greenslopes 17% 13% 8
Gumdale 27% 83% -
Hamilton 39% 0% 53
Hawthorne 43% 0% 14
Heathwood 18% 46% -
Hemmant 82% <1% 13
Hendra 29% 0% 8
Herston 30% 0% 14
Highgate Hill 16% 0% 29
Holland Park 6% 10% 12
Holland Park West 12% 18% 4
Inala 8% 5% 1
Indooroopilly 49% 40% 38
Jamboree Heights 14% 0% -
Jindalee 62% 19% -
Kalinga 35% 0% 6
Kangaroo Point 46% 0% 45
Karana Downs 36% 69% 3
Karawatha 36% 93% -
Kedron 14% 0% 16
Kelvin Grove 16% 0% 22
Kenmore 29% 46% 3
Kenmore Hills 12% 87% 3
Keperra 14% 34% 2
Kholo 22% 80% 1
Kooringal 16% 99% -
Kuraby 19% 49% 4
Lake Manchester 10% 98% 2
Larapinta 40% 54% -
Lota 52% 15% 9
Lutwyche 16% 0% 21
Lytton 68% 6% 7
MacGregor 12% 21% -
Mackenzie 6% 70% -
Manly 48% 2% 21
Manly West 10% 10% 5
Mansfield 23% 33% 1
McDowall 9% 45% -
Middle Park 22% 4% -
Milton 69% 0% 16
Mitchelton 18% 23% 9
Moggill 53% 36% 4
Moorooka 15% 13% 18
Moreton Bay 8% <1% 4
Moreton Island 2% 81% 4
Morningside 37% 8% 20
Mount Coot-tha 5% 100% 6
Mount Crosby 24% 92% 18
Mount Gravatt 4% 65% 6
Mount Gravatt East 6% 26% 5
Mount Ommaney 38% 18% -
Murarrie 50% 4% 3
Nathan 4% 94% 2
New Farm 51% 0% 106
Newmarket 24% 4% 21
Newstead 94% 0% 16
Norman Park 39% 1% 23
Northgate 33% 0% 8
Nudgee 41% 20% 10
Nudgee Beach 92% 6% 4
Nundah 28% 0% 38
Oxley 49% 25% 12
Paddington 15% 10% 51
Pallara 43% 58% -
Parkinson 11% 55% 1
Petrie Terrace 6% 0% 33
Pinjarra Hills 45% 52% 1
Pinkenba 92% 0% 7
Port Of Brisbane 97% 0% 1
Pullenvale 12% 82% 1
Ransome 63% 78% -
Red Hill 17% 0% 31
Richlands 6% 3% 2
Riverhills 56% 22% -
Robertson 3% 3% -
Rochedale 12% 65% 1
Rocklea 99% 8% 5
Runcorn 13% 27% 6
Salisbury 16% 16% 15
Sandgate 53% 19% 44
Seven Hills 5% 45% -
Seventeen Mile Rocks 37% 44% 1
Sherwood 53% 12% 23
Shorncliffe 74% <1% 22
Sinnamon Park 45% 13% 4
South Brisbane 62% 0% 76
Spring Hill 6% 0% 119
Stafford 15% 18% 9
Stafford Heights 7% 8% -
St Lucia 55% 13% 22
Stones Corner 60% 0% 12
Stretton 20% 66% -
Sumner 72% 34% -
Sunnybank 14% 7% 11
Sunnybank Hills 6% 9% 2
Taigum 23% 0% -
Taringa 20% 39% 17
Tarragindi 6% 33% 8
Teneriffe 50% 0% 48
Tennyson 84% 11% 1
The Gap 12% 60% 5
Tingalpa 51% 36% 7
Toowong 23% 35% 45
Upper Brookfield 6% 98% 2
Upper Kedron 8% 73% 3
Upper Mount Gravatt 7% 22% 4
Virginia 59% 8% 6
Wacol 51% 36% 6
Wakerley 27% 37% -
Wavell Heights 19% 0% 11
West End 65% 0% 52
Westlake 59% 19% -
Willawong 65% 35% -
Wilston 29% 9% 13
Windsor 44% 6% 57
Wishart 21% 21% -
Woolloongabba 22% 0% 60
Wooloowin 10% 0% 28
Wynnum 40% 6% 49
Wynnum West 26% 5% 4
Yeerongpilly 76% 0% 9
Yeronga 58% <1% 24
Zillmere 18% <1% 11
No suburb by that name in Brisbane City.

Brisbane flood map questions

How do I check if a property in Brisbane is in a flood zone?

Search the exact address in the free overlay map, which shows the mapped flood overlays on that property. The suburb shading on this page is a suburb-wide share and does not tell you about a single lot. Brisbane City Council's own flood mapping and flood searches remain the official sources for planning decisions on a property.

Which Brisbane suburbs have the most mapped flood?

By share of suburb area inside mapped flood overlays: Rocklea (99%), Newstead (94%), Nudgee Beach (92%), Pinkenba (92%), Tennyson (84%). These are suburb-wide shares, so streets within the same suburb can differ.

How much of Brisbane is flood mapped?

All 195 Brisbane suburbs have some area inside mapped flood overlays.

What does the Brisbane flood map show?

The share of each suburb's area that falls inside the flood mapping LayeredGeo holds for Brisbane City, shaded in five bands from none to 60% or more. It is a planning-mapping measure, not a prediction of how often a property floods.

Check your exact address

The free interactive map shows every overlay on a single Brisbane City property. PDF reports from $9.

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