Flood check, Brisbane

Has Brisbane flooded?

Recorded flood extents, disaster history and the nearest warning gauge for the Brisbane council area, plus a flood page for every suburb we track. The layer check for your own address is free; the full PDF report with maps is $49.

Recorded flood extents — Rochedale

Yes — recorded flooding reached into Rochedale in 2022.

1974 The mapped January 1974 — Brisbane River flood extent does not touch Rochedale. · Brisbane City Council Clear
2011 The mapped January 2011 — Brisbane River flood extent does not touch Rochedale. · Brisbane City Council Clear
2022 The mapped February 2022 — Brisbane River and creeks flood extent reaches into Rochedale. · Brisbane City Council Reaches in

Brisbane City has been disaster-activated for 23 flood, storm or cyclone events since 2007 — most recently Southern Summer Rainfall and Flooding 9 December 2024 to 14 January 2025.
Nearest flood-warning gauge: Rochedale South Alert, Logan-Albert basin — 2 km from the centre of Rochedale.

The disaster-activation history covers the whole Brisbane council area. The recorded-extent lines above are tested against Rochedale's own boundary — Brisbane's suburb with the most activity here — because an extent reaching one suburb doesn't mean it reaches another. Find your own suburb's record below.

Check your own address in Brisbane

Free, and no sign-up: the flood layers on that lot, and whether each recorded flood reaches it. The full report ($49 incl. GST) adds every planning layer, maps, easements and the development applications around the site.

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Flood history by suburb in Brisbane

Every suburb we track flood history for in Brisbane — recorded extents, disaster history and the nearest gauge, suburb by suburb.

Rochedale Bulimba Paddington New Farm Wynnum Doolandella Ashgrove South Brisbane Brisbane City Morningside Camp Hill Coorparoo Fortitude Valley Bridgeman Downs Hamilton Toowong West End Annerley Kedron Newstead Pallara Bardon Clayfield Everton Park Greenslopes Kangaroo Point Kenmore Upper Mount Gravatt Salisbury Eight Mile Plains Indooroopilly Nundah Teneriffe Windsor Woolloongabba Wynnum West Acacia Ridge Ascot Darra Forest Lake Carina The Gap Balmoral Chermside Hendra Rocklea Taigum Taringa Zillmere Albion Bracken Ridge Hemmant Mitchelton Norman Park Oxley Richlands Auchenflower Bald Hills Boondall Coopers Plains East Brisbane Highgate Hill Stafford Sunnybank Hills Wavell Heights Gordon Park Hawthorne Moorooka Northgate Algester Brighton Lucia Tarragindi Tingalpa Yeronga Holland Park Mcdowall Mount Gravatt East Spring Hill Willawong Wooloowin Alderley Aspley Geebung Manly Milton Murarrie Red Hill Sandgate Carina Heights Corinda Fig Tree Pocket Sunnybank Yeerongpilly Enoggera Grange Holland Park West Inala Newmarket Pinkenba Sherwood Stafford Heights Wilston Banyo Carseldine Dutton Park Herston Lutwyche Manly West Runcorn Upper Kedron Wacol Calamvale Cannon Hill Carindale Lota Robertson Virginia Anstead Chelmer Chermside West Keperra Macgregor Mansfield Stretton Bellbowrie Chapel Hill Deagon Durack Gaythorne Gumdale Heathwood Kalinga Brookfield Chandler Fairfield Moggill Mount Gravatt Nudgee Pullenvale Seven Hills Upper Brookfield Jindalee Lytton Parkinson Shorncliffe Sinnamon Park

Development applications and planning overlays in Brisbane

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Get a brief whenever a development application — the plans a council must approve before building starts — is lodged or decided near an address you care about, with the zone and planning constraints for the site. Free.