Cairns flood map and planning overlays by suburb
Flood, bushfire and heritage mapping compared across 66 suburbs in Cairns Regional. 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 readout
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 Cairns Regional suburbs compare
Suburb-wide shares and counts. They do not decide the result for any one property.
Most mapped flood
- Bungalow100%
- Packers Camp100%
- Parramatta Park100%
- Portsmith100%
- Westcourt100%
- Mount Peter100%
- Wrights Creek100%
- Manunda99%
Most bushfire-prone land
- Stratford69%
- Kanimbla58%
- Little Mulgrave58%
- Goldsborough56%
- Mount Peter47%
- Clifton Beach47%
- East Trinity45%
- Bramston Beach44%
Most heritage places
Steepest median slope
- Goldsborough14%
- Little Mulgrave12%
- Kamerunga11%
- Freshwater8%
- East Trinity8%
- Woopen Creek8%
- Brinsmead8%
- Kanimbla7%
Flood and bushfire rankings count only suburbs where LayeredGeo holds and could measure the mapping. Places with almost no residents are left out (Barron, Barron Gorge, Coral Sea, East Russell, Ellis Beach, Fitzroy Island, Glen Boughton, Green Island, Lamb Range, Macalister Range, Ngatjan, Waugh Pocket, Wooroonooran).
Cairns Regional 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.
Online maps - flood
Historical flooding and 1% AEP flood modelling across the region; not for insurance or self-assessment, the council says.
CairnsPlan Property Report tool
The CairnsPlan 2016 zone, local plan and overlays for a single property as a PDF.
LayeredGeo is not part of the council or the state government.
All 66 Cairns Regional 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.
| Aeroglen | 74% | 10% | - |
| Aloomba | 55% | 15% | 2 |
| Babinda | 81% | <1% | 23 |
| Barron | 100% | 6% | 5 |
| Barron Gorge | 13% | 38% | 1 |
| Bartle Frere | 71% | <1% | 1 |
| Bayview Heights | 33% | 37% | - |
| Bellenden Ker | 78% | 5% | - |
| Bentley Park | 50% | 37% | 1 |
| Bramston Beach | 53% | 44% | - |
| Brinsmead | 35% | 18% | - |
| Bungalow | 100% | 2% | 1 |
| Cairns City | 65% | 0% | 67 |
| Cairns North | 52% | <1% | 10 |
| Caravonica | 40% | 19% | - |
| Clifton Beach | 15% | 47% | - |
| Coral Sea | <1% | 0% | - |
| Deeral | 72% | 29% | - |
| Earlville | 46% | 29% | - |
| East Russell | 13% | 4% | - |
| East Trinity | 41% | 45% | 2 |
| Edge Hill | 65% | 23% | 3 |
| Edmonton | 78% | 22% | 10 |
| Ellis Beach | 7% | 8% | - |
| Eubenangee | 58% | 28% | - |
| Fishery Falls | 92% | <1% | - |
| Fitzroy Island | 2% | 23% | - |
| Freshwater | 32% | 39% | 3 |
| Glen Boughton | 54% | 80% | - |
| Goldsborough | 31% | 56% | 1 |
| Gordonvale | 87% | 22% | 32 |
| Green Hill | 47% | 25% | - |
| Green Island | 3% | 0% | 1 |
| Holloways Beach | 81% | 15% | - |
| Kamerunga | 73% | 39% | 4 |
| Kanimbla | 33% | 58% | - |
| Kewarra Beach | 23% | 30% | - |
| Lamb Range | 18% | 28% | - |
| Little Mulgrave | 51% | 58% | 2 |
| Macalister Range | 5% | 47% | - |
| Machans Beach | 68% | 20% | - |
| Manoora | 94% | 20% | 2 |
| Manunda | 99% | 40% | 3 |
| Mirriwinni | 78% | 7% | 5 |
| Mooroobool | 48% | 18% | - |
| Mount Peter | 100% | 47% | - |
| Mount Sheridan | 41% | 31% | - |
| Ngatjan | 28% | <1% | - |
| Packers Camp | 100% | 10% | - |
| Palm Cove | 13% | 31% | - |
| Parramatta Park | 100% | 10% | 7 |
| Portsmith | 100% | 1% | 2 |
| Redlynch | 39% | 34% | 4 |
| Smithfield | 48% | 43% | - |
| Stratford | 42% | 69% | 6 |
| Trinity Beach | 22% | 40% | - |
| Trinity Park | 83% | 22% | - |
| Waugh Pocket | 49% | 1% | 1 |
| Westcourt | 100% | <1% | 1 |
| White Rock | 93% | 9% | - |
| Whitfield | 23% | 31% | 2 |
| Woopen Creek | 54% | 2% | - |
| Wooroonooran | 19% | 15% | - |
| Woree | 74% | 28% | 2 |
| Wrights Creek | 100% | 9% | - |
| Yorkeys Knob | 87% | 15% | 1 |
Cairns flood map questions
How do I check if a property in Cairns 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. Cairns Regional Council's own flood mapping and flood searches remain the official sources for planning decisions on a property.
Which Cairns suburbs have the most mapped flood?
By share of suburb area inside mapped flood overlays: Bungalow (100%), Packers Camp (100%), Parramatta Park (100%), Portsmith (100%), Westcourt (100%). These are suburb-wide shares, so streets within the same suburb can differ.
How much of Cairns is flood mapped?
All 66 Cairns suburbs have some area inside mapped flood overlays.
What does the Cairns flood map show?
The share of each suburb's area that falls inside the flood mapping LayeredGeo holds for Cairns Regional, 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 Cairns Regional property. PDF reports from $9.
Open the overlay map →