Mount Isa flood map and planning overlays by suburb
Flood, bushfire and heritage mapping compared across 25 suburbs in Mount Isa City. 19 of them have 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 mapMount Isa City
Not drawn at this scale: Barkly, Camooweal, Gunpowder, Lawn Hill, Mount Isa.
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 Mount Isa City suburbs compare
Suburb-wide shares and counts. They do not decide the result for any one property.
Most mapped flood
- Miles End44%
- Lanskey39%
- Happy Valley38%
- Mica Creek37%
- Parkside31%
- Soldiers Hill29%
- Ryan22%
- Winston16%
Most bushfire-prone land
- Breakaway100%
- Gunpowder94%
- Mount Isa80%
- Lanskey72%
- Camooweal59%
- Mica Creek51%
- Sunset50%
- Happy Valley41%
Most heritage places
Steepest median slope
- Parkside5%
- Breakaway4%
- Mount Isa City4%
- The Gap4%
- Mica Creek3%
- Miles End3%
- Gunpowder3%
- Happy Valley3%
Flood and bushfire rankings count only suburbs where LayeredGeo holds and could measure the mapping. Places with almost no residents are left out (Barkly, Fisher, Kalkadoon, Lawn Hill, Spreadborough).
All 25 Mount Isa 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.
| Barkly | Not mapped | 26% | - |
| Breakaway | 8% | 100% | - |
| Camooweal | 0% | 59% | 5 |
| Fisher | <1% | 62% | - |
| Gunpowder | Not mapped | 94% | - |
| Happy Valley | 38% | 41% | - |
| Healy | 9% | 22% | - |
| Kalkadoon | 4% | 23% | - |
| Lanskey | 39% | 72% | - |
| Lawn Hill | Not mapped | 84% | - |
| Menzies | 3% | 0% | - |
| Mica Creek | 37% | 51% | - |
| Miles End | 44% | 16% | 1 |
| Mornington | 6% | 0% | 2 |
| Mount Isa | Not mapped | 80% | 5 |
| Mount Isa City | 5% | 0% | 3 |
| Parkside | 31% | 2% | 4 |
| Pioneer | 4% | 6% | - |
| Ryan | 22% | 31% | 1 |
| Soldiers Hill | 29% | 15% | - |
| Spreadborough | 22% | 45% | - |
| Sunset | 8% | 50% | - |
| The Gap | <1% | 0% | 2 |
| Townview | Not mapped | 13% | - |
| Winston | 16% | 13% | - |
Mount Isa flood map questions
How do I check if a property in Mount Isa 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. Mount Isa City Council's own flood mapping and flood searches remain the official sources for planning decisions on a property.
Which Mount Isa suburbs have the most mapped flood?
By share of suburb area inside mapped flood overlays: Miles End (44%), Lanskey (39%), Happy Valley (38%), Mica Creek (37%), Parkside (31%). These are suburb-wide shares, so streets within the same suburb can differ.
How much of Mount Isa is flood mapped?
19 of 25 Mount Isa suburbs have some area inside mapped flood overlays, 1 have none and 5 have no flood mapping held by LayeredGeo.
What does the Mount Isa flood map show?
The share of each suburb's area that falls inside the flood mapping LayeredGeo holds for Mount Isa 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 Mount Isa City property. PDF reports from $9.
Open the overlay map →