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Australian Flood Studies Database - A Freely Available National Catalogue

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Every year floods cause millions of dollars damage to buildings and infrastructure, as well as to agricultural land and crops. They also disrupt business, and affect the safety and health of communities. The losses due to flooding vary widely from year to year and are dependent on a number of factors such as the severity of a flood and its location. Between 1967 and 2005 the average annual direct cost of floods in Australia has been estimated at AUD$377 million (BITRE 2008). This figure is likely to have risen following the widespread and devastating floods across eastern Australia that occurred over the summer of 2010-11.

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Title Australian Flood Studies Database - A Freely Available National Catalogue
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/bcdb46e9-14b1-4cf8-bfb6-814c8dfc35b7
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Australian Flood Studies Database - A Freely Available National Catalogue". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/australian-flood-studies-database-a-freely-available-national-catalogue