Floods in Australia - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of notable recorded flood

Flood

A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land. The EU Floods directive defines a flood as a temporary covering by water of land not normally covered by water...

s that have occurred in the country of Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

Date	Location	State(s)	Fatalities
1806	Maitland Maitland, New South Wales Maitland is a city in the Lower Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia and the seat of Maitland City Council, situated on the Hunter River approximately by road north of Sydney and north-west of Newcastle...	NSW
1820	Maitland	NSW
1852	Gundagai	NSW	89
1863	Melbourne (December)	VIC	1
1869	Ballarat	VIC	2
1891	Melbourne (July)	VIC	1
1893	Brisbane flood 1893 Brisbane flood The 1893 Brisbane flood, occasionally referred to as the Great Flood of 1893 or the Black February flood, occurred when the Brisbane River burst its banks on three occasions in February 1893. It is the occurrence of three major floods in the same month that saw the period named "Black February"....	QLD	11
1893	Maitland	NSW	9
1900	Western Australia 1900 Western Australian floods The 1900 Western Australian floods were a series of flooding events from March to May of 1900 that affected large areas of Western Australia, primarily in the Pilbara and Gascoyne regions, though it extended to cover most of the state except the more humid Kimberley and Southwest regions.The...	WA
1909	Western Victorian floods 1909 Western Victorian floods The 1909 Western Victorian floods consisted of widespread flooding on rivers of the western half of the State of Victoria during the middle of August that year.-Meteorological background:...	VIC	4
1913	Maitland	NSW
1916	Clermont Clermont, Queensland Clermont is an agricultural town in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. It is 274 km south-west of Mackay on the junction of the Gregory and Peak Downs highways...	QLD	65
1923	Adelaide	SA	3
1926	Southwestern Australia	WA
1927	Wollombi Wollombi, New South Wales Wollombi is a small village in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. It is within the Cessnock City Council LGA, situated southwest of Cessnock and north of Sydney...	NSW
1929	Tasmanian Floods 1929 Tasmanian Floods The most deadly floods in Tasmania's history occurred in April 1929 when 22 people were killed and 40 injured. The floods helped to prompt the construction of flood levees in the city of Launceston, Tasmania's second largest city and an important economic centre in the North of Tasmania.Flooding...	TAS	22
1930	Maitland	NSW
1931	Maitland	NSW
1934	Yarra River Yarra River The Yarra River, originally Birrarung, is a river in east-central Victoria, Australia. The lower stretches of the river is where the city of Melbourne was established in 1835 and today Greater Melbourne dominates and influences the landscape of its lower reaches...	VIC	35
1947	June 1947 Tasmanian floods	TAS
1949	Maitland	NSW
1950	Maitland	NSW
1951	Maitland	NSW
1952	Maitland	NSW
1952	Geelong Belmont, Victoria Belmont is a southern suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The name means "beautiful hill". Belmont is geographically separated from the Geelong central business district by the Barwon River. The suburb is primarily residential, with some light industry along Barwon Heads Road...	VIC
1955	Maitland flood	NSW	14
1955	All southern states (August)	WA, SA, VIC, NSW, TAS	2
1956	Murray River 1956 Murray River flood The 1956 Murray River flood involved the rising of waters in the Murray River and flooding of many towns in three states of Australia, including the towns of Colignan, Iraak, Mannum, Murray Bridge, Mildura, Nangiloc, Red Cliffs, Renmark, Wentworth and many others.The flood occurred due to higher...	NSW, VIC, SA
1970	All eastern states (December)	QLD, NSW, VIC, TAS	16
1971	Canberra flood 1971 Canberra flood The 1971 Canberra flood was a flash flood that occurred on Australia Day, 26 January 1971, in the Woden Valley of Canberra, Australia. The flood killed seven people including four children, injured 15 and affected 500 people. The insurance damage was estimated at A$ 9 million. It was estimated that...	ACT	7
1971	Maitland	NSW
1974	Brisbane flood 1974 Brisbane flood The 1974 Brisbane flood occurred in January 1974 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, when waterways in the city experienced significant flooding...	QLD	16
1986	Sydney	NSW	6
1990	East Coast	NSW	7
1996	Queensland and New South Wales	NSW & QLD	4
1998	Katherine Katherine, Northern Territory Katherine is a town situated southeast of Darwin in the "Top End" of Australia in the Northern Territory. It is the fourth largest settlement in the Territory after the capital Darwin, Palmerston and Alice Springs...	NT	3
2007	Hunter Valley/Maitland floods (June)	NSW	10
2007	Gippsland Floods (June)	VIC
2008	Mackay floods (February)	QLD
2010	Victorian floods (Sept) 2010 Victorian floods The 2010 Victorian floods were a widespread series of flood events across the state of Victoria, Australia. The floods, which followed heavy rain across southeastern Australia in early September 2010, caused the inundation of about 250 homes, hundreds of evacuations and millions of dollars of...	VIC
2010	Queensland floods (March)	QLD
2010	Carnarvon/Gascoyne (December) 2010 Gascoyne River flood The December 2010 Gascoyne River flood was regarded as the most severe flood to take place along the Gascoyne River in Western Australia on record. Triggered by record-breaking rainfall, amounting to over 6,000 percent of the monthly mean, and respectively, in just four days, the floods caused...	WA
2010-11	Queensland floods (Dec–Jan) 2010–2011 Queensland floods A series of floods hit Australia, beginning in December 2010, primarily in the state of Queensland including its capital city, Brisbane. The floods forced the evacuation of thousands of people from towns and cities. At least seventy towns and over 200,000 people were affected. Damage initially was...	QLD	35
2011	2011 Victorian Floods (Jan) 2011 Victorian floods High intensity rainfall between 12–14 January 2011 caused major flooding across much of the western and central parts of the Australian state of Victoria...	VIC	1

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