Floods in Australia

Australia has had numerous floods in the last 10 years, many of which have taken out homes, wildlife and many habitats.

1893 Brisbane flood

Flooding in Newcastle in 2007

Queensland 2010–2011 floods

Floods that have occurred in the country of Australia:

Date	Location	State(s)	Fatalities	Notes
1806	Melbourne	VIC	4	[citation needed]
1820	Maitland	NSW
1852	Gundagai	NSW	89	[1]
1863	Melbourne (December)	VIC	1	[2]
1867	Hawkesbury River (June)	NSW	12	[3]
1869	Ballarat	VIC	2	[4]
1891	Melbourne (July)	VIC	1	[5]
1893	Brisbane flood	QLD	11	[6][7]
1893	Maitland	NSW	9	[citation needed]
1900	Western Australian floods	WA
1909	Western Victorian floods	VIC	4	[citation needed]
1913	Maitland	NSW	1	[8]
1916	Clermont	QLD	65	[citation needed]
1923	Adelaide	SA	3	[citation needed]
1926	Southwestern Australia	WA
1927	Wollombi	NSW
1929	Tasmanian Floods	TAS	22	[citation needed]
1930	Maitland	NSW
1931	Maitland	NSW
1934	Yarra River	VIC	35	[citation needed]
1947	June 1947 Tasmanian floods	TAS
1949	Maitland	NSW
1950	Maitland, Gippsland, West Queensland	NSW, VIC, QLD	1	[9]
1951	Maitland	NSW
1952	Maitland	NSW
1955	Maitland flood	NSW	14	[citation needed]
1955	All southern states (August)	WA, SA, VIC, NSW, TAS	2	[citation needed]
1956	Murray River flood	NSW, VIC, SA
1970	All eastern states (December)	QLD, NSW, VIC, TAS	16	[citation needed]
1971	Canberra flood	ACT	7	[10]
1971	Tadpole flood	NSW
1974	Brisbane flood	QLD	16	[citation needed]
1984 Feb	West Dapto	NSW	not known	[11]
1986	Sydney	NSW	6	[citation needed]
1990	East Coast	NSW	7	[citation needed]
1996	Queensland and New South Wales	NSW & QLD	4	[citation needed]
1998	Katherine Townsville Wollongong	NT, QLD, NSW	3	[12][13]
June 2007	Hunter Valley/Maitland floods	NSW	10	[citation needed]
June 2007	Gippsland Floods	VIC
February 2008	Mackay floods	QLD
September 2010	Victorian floods (Sept)	VIC
March 2010	Queensland floods (March)	QLD
December 2010	Carnarvon/Gascoyne (December)	WA
December 2010 – January 2011	Queensland floods (Dec – Jan)	QLD	35	[14]
January 2011	2011 Victorian Floods (Jan)	VIC	2	[15][16]
August 2011	Gippsland (August)	VIC	1	[17]
February – March 2012	Eastern Australia (Feb – Mar)	NSW, VIC, QLD	3	[18][19][20]
March 2012	Gippsland and Koo wee rup	VIC	0	[citation needed]
January – February 2013	2013 Eastern Australia Floods (Jan)	QLD, NSW	6	[citation needed]
April 2015	2015 Hunter Valley/Central Coast/Sydney Floods	NSW	8	[citation needed]
May 2015	South – East Queensland Flash Floods	QLD	5	[21]
June 2016	Tasmanian Floods	TAS	3	[22]
September 2016	Central West and Riverina Floods	NSW	1	[23]
February 2017	Western Australian Floods	WA	2	[24]
Late March 2017	Eastern Australian Floods caused by Cyclone Debbie	Southern Queensland, Northern NSW	12	[25]
January – February 2019	Townsville flood	Queensland	5	[26]
February 2020	Widespread flooding in Sydney basin and the Blue Mountains, flooding in central west to the north of NSW and flooding caused by Tropical Cyclone Damien in Karratha	NSW, WA	0
March 2021	Widespread flooding in the Sydney basin and the Mid North Coast of NSW (2021 eastern Australia floods). Extending into South East Queensland	NSW, South East Queensland	3 (As of 25 March 2021[update])	[27][28]
9-10 June 2021	Widespread flash flooding across Gippsland. 160,000 properties blacked out, some for 4 days or more. Traralgon in the Latrobe Valley was one of the hardest-hit places with 200 homes evacuated.	Victoria	2	[29][30][31][32]
November 2021	Central Queensland	Queensland		[33]
January 2022	Wide Bay-Burnett, Fraser Coast and Gympie Regions, caused by ex-Tropical Cyclone Seth	Queensland	3	[34]
February 2022	Eastern Australia floods	Queensland, NSW	23, 1 missing	[35][36][37][38]
March 2022	Eastern Australia floods	South East Queensland, NSW	4	[39][40]
July 2022	New South Wales	NSW	1	[41]
October 2022	South eastern Australia floods	VIC, TAS, NSW	7	[42]
October 2023	Gippsland	VIC		[43][44][45]
December 2023	Cairns Flood	QLD		[46]
January – February 2025	North Queensland	QLD	2	[47][48]
May 2025	New South Wales	NSW	5	[49]