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Townsville flood map and planning overlays by suburb

Flood, bushfire and heritage mapping compared across 94 suburbs in Townsville City. 89 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.

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 Townsville City suburbs compare

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

Most mapped flood

  1. Cluden100%
  2. Currajong100%
  3. Garbutt100%
  4. Gulliver100%
  5. Hermit Park100%
  6. Hyde Park100%
  7. Idalia100%
  8. Mount St John100%

Most bushfire-prone land

  1. Blue Hills100%
  2. Toomulla96%
  3. Roseneath94%
  4. Bluewater Park93%
  5. Picnic Bay93%
  6. Reid River93%
  7. Hervey Range92%
  8. Arcadia90%

Most heritage places

  1. Townsville City100
  2. Railway Estate58
  3. North Ward57
  4. South Townsville43
  5. West End42
  6. Hermit Park14
  7. Garbutt6
  8. Castle Hill5

Steepest median slope

  1. Castle Hill27%
  2. Townsville City9%
  3. Stuart8%
  4. Arcadia8%
  5. Toomulla7%
  6. Nelly Bay6%
  7. Blue Hills5%
  8. Nome5%

Flood and bushfire rankings count only suburbs where LayeredGeo holds and could measure the mapping. Places with almost no residents are left out (Barringha, Beach Holm, Brookhill, Calcium, Clemant, Coral Sea, Crystal Creek, Florence Bay, Granite Vale, Lynam, Mount Elliot, Mount Stuart, Paluma, Pinnacles, Ross River, Shelly Beach, Toonpan, Town Common, West Point).

Townsville 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.

TownsvilleMAPS Flooding and the Flood Mapping Service

Modelled flood depth and extent for the 1% and 2% AEP events (2024 recalibrated studies, with a 2100 climate change case), and flood levels for building work.

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TownsvilleMAPS

The City Plan flood hazard overlay and other planning scheme layers for a lot.

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

All 94 Townsville 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.

94 suburbs
Aitkenvale 91% 3% 4
Alice River 17% 72% 1
Alligator Creek 12% 86% -
Annandale 95% 15% -
Arcadia 8% 90% 4
Balgal Beach 88% 85% -
Barringha Not mapped 69% -
Beach Holm 98% 31% -
Belgian Gardens 69% 15% 4
Black River 27% 45% -
Blue Hills Not mapped 100% -
Bluewater 52% 88% -
Bluewater Park 13% 93% -
Bohle 100% 16% 1
Bohle Plains 44% 59% -
Brookhill <1% 87% -
Burdell 97% 36% 1
Bushland Beach 89% 37% -
Calcium 9% 85% 2
Cape Cleveland 78% 57% 1
Castle Hill <1% 86% 5
Clemant 11% 92% -
Cluden 100% 12% 1
Condon 85% 27% -
Coral Sea <1% 0% 5
Cosgrove 50% 78% -
Cranbrook 74% 8% -
Crystal Creek 3% 62% 1
Cungulla 100% 50% -
Currajong 100% 0% -
Deeragun 72% 44% -
Douglas 56% 65% 1
Florence Bay 10% 91% 1
Garbutt 100% 5% 6
Granite Vale <1% 98% -
Gulliver 100% 2% -
Gumlow 51% 50% -
Heatley 71% 0% -
Hermit Park 100% 0% 14
Hervey Range <1% 92% 2
Horseshoe Bay 40% 86% 2
Hyde Park 100% 0% 1
Idalia 100% <1% 1
Jensen 74% 40% 1
Julago 2% 86% -
Kelso 86% 40% -
Kirwan 93% 8% 1
Lynam 2% 91% 2
Majors Creek 27% 77% -
Mount Elliot <1% 100% -
Mount Louisa 63% 45% 1
Mount Low 90% 30% -
Mount St John 100% 5% 2
Mount Stuart 3% 94% 1
Mundingburra 100% 18% 1
Murray 23% 81% 1
Mutarnee 26% 84% -
Mysterton 100% 1% 1
Nelly Bay 29% 82% 1
Nome 51% 69% -
North Ward 71% 11% 57
Oak Valley 0% 84% 1
Oonoonba 100% 0% -
Pallarenda 56% 67% 2
Paluma 7% 14% 12
Picnic Bay 18% 93% 3
Pimlico 100% 13% -
Pinnacles 6% 74% -
Railway Estate 100% 0% 58
Rangewood 61% 60% -
Rasmussen 82% 16% 2
Reid River 36% 93% -
Rollingstone 34% 86% -
Roseneath 2% 94% 2
Rosslea 100% <1% -
Ross River 0% 28% -
Rowes Bay 100% 36% -
Saunders Beach 100% 54% -
Shaw 66% 88% -
Shelly Beach 51% 87% 2
South Townsville 99% 0% 43
Stuart 75% 42% 1
Thuringowa Central 78% 10% -
Toolakea 100% 55% -
Toomulla 72% 96% -
Toonpan Not mapped 90% -
Town Common 90% 40% 1
Townsville City 69% 7% 100
Vincent 91% 0% -
West End 75% 17% 42
West Point 9% 93% -
Woodstock 16% 63% 2
Wulguru 51% 32% 1
Yabulu 73% 46% -
No suburb by that name in Townsville City.

Townsville flood map questions

How do I check if a property in Townsville 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. Townsville City Council's own flood mapping and flood searches remain the official sources for planning decisions on a property.

Which Townsville suburbs have the most mapped flood?

By share of suburb area inside mapped flood overlays: Cluden (100%), Currajong (100%), Garbutt (100%), Gulliver (100%), Hermit Park (100%). These are suburb-wide shares, so streets within the same suburb can differ.

How much of Townsville is flood mapped?

89 of 94 Townsville suburbs have some area inside mapped flood overlays, 2 have none and 3 have no flood mapping held by LayeredGeo.

What does the Townsville flood map show?

The share of each suburb's area that falls inside the flood mapping LayeredGeo holds for Townsville 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 Townsville City property. PDF reports from $9.

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