Great Sandy Strait flood map & planning overlays
99.6% under environmental overlays, mostly the Ramsar wetland overlay. Wetland of world note.
Most lots here are flood-mapped. The free check shows how much of one lot the overlay covers.
Free map preview, then PDF reports from $9 - about the price of an iced latte on a public holiday.
A planning-constraint profile of Great Sandy Strait
(Fraser Coast Regional, QLD) - 611.18 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 7 November 2026.
Constraint readout
611.18 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Great Sandy Strait's boundary, with the flood, bushfire and environmental overlays drawn on top. Magenta is where aircraft were observed in the sampled period, brightest below 3,000 ft.
Nearby suburbs, nearest first
Aircraft noise and flight paths over Great Sandy Strait
The ANEF contour is a published planning forecast and observed overflight is what a sampled tracking feed recorded - neither describes any individual property.
Observed overflight - sampled 4 Sep to 7 Nov 2026
typical observed square 1 a day
Night movements: observed, lowest 500 ft - night is sampled as often as day, but night traffic is light, so this is a floor and no rate can be put on it.
How this is measured
Traffic is sampled rather than watched continuously, so every figure is a floor: aircraft not captured between samples are not represented. Rates are per 500 m square - the busiest square in the suburb, not a count of flights over the suburb - and a square is only rated where enough traffic was seen to measure it. Altitudes are above mean sea level. Flight paths change with runway use, weather, season and airspace design. This is a record of observed traffic; it is not a noise contour and not a planning control.
Great Sandy Strait at a glance
Schools in and near Great Sandy Strait
Public school-location data shows availability across the suburb; it does not rate schools or assign any individual address to a catchment.
Inside the suburb boundary
0 schools providing primary years and 0 providing secondary years. A combined school may be counted in both teaching levels.
Nearest school availability
Primary: 0.88 km from the suburb boundary
Secondary: 2.69 km from the suburb boundary
Source: Queensland Government school geographic information. Catchment boundaries can divide a suburb and change over time.
Which school zone is a Great Sandy Strait address in? Check an address with our free school zone checker.
How Great Sandy Strait is zoned
Selling in Great Sandy Strait? The lot-level zone is the zoning Part 3 of Queensland's Form 2 seller disclosure statement asks for - see our Form 2 planning data guide.
Across its 611.18 km², Great Sandy Strait is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 52% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 5% is flagged bushfire-prone. There is 1 heritage-listed site on record, and the dominant land-use zone is Environmental Management and Conservation. The median lot measures about 61,686 m² across 111 parcels.
Great Sandy Strait data sources and coverage
“Not mapped” means we hold no source layer for this suburb - never an all-clear.
| Dataset | Coverage | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Flood mapping | Mapped | the relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data |
| Bushfire-prone mapping | Mapped | the relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data |
| Zoning | Mapped | the relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data |
| Heritage and environment | Mapped where published | the relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data |
| Aircraft noise contours (ANEF) | Not held | the relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data, Defence |
| Observed flight paths | Observed | adsb.lol, under the Open Database License |
| Demographics | Not available | Australian Bureau of Statistics (2021 Census and SEIFA) |
| School availability | Available | Queensland Government |
Profile last materially updated 7 November 2026. See the methodology and full source list. Source data changes over time and critical decisions should be checked with the responsible authority.
Check a specific Great Sandy Strait address
See exactly which overlays touch a single property - the interactive map is free. Need it on paper? A full planning PDF is just $9.
See what's in the $9 report →Aircraft have been seen below 3,000 ft over about 37% of Great Sandy Strait. The report's Aircraft Overflight page narrows that to the address itself: how many aircraft a day, how low, and at what heights.
Published flood models are held over parts of Great Sandy Strait. The free check tells you whether one reaches an address; where it does, a Flood Model Report is +$9 with the planning report.
Moving here? The Liveability section adds walking times from the address to schools, parks, shops and transport, and the school zones it sits in (+$9 with the planning report).
Building or pricing a slab? The $119 geotechnical desktop report covers geology, soils, bores and the indicative soil reactivity range to expect for a Great Sandy Strait lot.
Great Sandy Strait planning - frequently asked
Is Great Sandy Strait flood-prone?
About 52% of Great Sandy Strait falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 46%. Published flood models are held over parts of Great Sandy Strait; the free check on the Flood Model Report page says whether one reaches a given address.
Is Great Sandy Strait bushfire-prone?
Around 5% of Great Sandy Strait is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Fraser Coast Regional average of 68%.
Is Great Sandy Strait under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed below 3,000 ft over about 37% of Great Sandy Strait, and over about 54% at any altitude up to 10,000 ft, in the period sampled (4 Sep 2026 to 7 Nov 2026). The lowest measured aircraft was at 500 ft, with an average of 3,000 ft. At the busiest point in the suburb about 16 aircraft a day were recorded passing over one 500 m square. Traffic is sampled rather than watched continuously and flight paths change with runway use, weather and season; the ANEF contour is the planning instrument.
What is the zoning in Great Sandy Strait?
The dominant planning zone in Great Sandy Strait is Environmental Management and Conservation, though the suburb also includes Low Density Residential and Mixed Use.
Does Great Sandy Strait have heritage-listed places?
Great Sandy Strait has 1 heritage-listed place on record.
What is the typical lot size in Great Sandy Strait?
Across 111 surveyed parcels in Great Sandy Strait, the median lot size is about 61,686 m².
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dimonds | 6.8 km | 64% | 82% |
| Maaroom | 8.9 km | 60% | 69% |
| Boonooroo Plains | 11.8 km | Not measured | 83% |
| Beaver Rock | 11.9 km | 60% | 36% |
| Tandora | 12.6 km | 80% | 62% |
| River Heads | 13.2 km | 73% | 15% |
| Boonooroo | 13.4 km | 57% | 79% |
| Prawle | 15.3 km | 89% | 60% |
| Walkers Point | 17.8 km | 90% | 37% |
| Tuan | 17.8 km | 54% | 73% |