Natural disaster declarations

Last updated: 01 December 2021

A Disaster Declaration is a frequently updated list of Local Government Areas (LGA) that have been impacted by a natural disaster. With a disaster declaration for their area, affected communities and individuals can access a range of special assistance measures.

Disaster declarations are issued by the NSW Government and incorporate an Australian Government reference number (AGRN).

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Financial year 2021-22

AGRN	Disaster types	Name of disaster	Local Government Area
987	Severe weather and flooding	NSW Severe Weather and Flooding 9 November 2021 onwards	Bathurst Blayney Blue Mountains Bourke Brewarrina Broken Hill Cabonne Cobar Coonamble Cowra Dubbo Forbes Gilgandra Glen Innes Severn Gunnedah Gwydir Kyogle Lachlan Shire Lithgow Liverpool Plains Lockhart Moree Plains Muswellbrook Narrabri Narromine Orange Parkes Port Macquarie Hastings Singleton Snowy Monaro Snowy Valleys Tamworth Tenterfield Upper Hunter Walgett Warren Warrumbungle Weddin
982	Severe weather	Severe Weather Event Across NSW from 23 October onwards	Wollondilly
981	Storm and flood	NSW Storms and Floods from 22 August onwards	Oberon
980	Severe weather	North East NSW Severe Weather from 20 October onwards	Coffs Harbour
979	Storm	Armidale Storm from October 14 2021 onwards	Armidale
975	Storm and flood	NSW Storms and Floods from 16 July 2021 onwards	Glen Innes Severn Inverell

Previous financial years

Financial year 2020-21

AGRN	Disaster types	Name of disaster	Local Government Area
976	Storm	NSW Storms from 10 June 2021 onwards	Cabonne
970	Storm and flood	Southern NSW Storms and Floods from 5 May 2021 onwards	Bega Valley Eurobodalla Shoalhaven Wingecarribee
967	Storm	Snowy Valleys Storms from 3 February 2021 onwards	Snowy Valleys
960	Storm and flood	NSW Storms and Floods 10 March 2021 onwards	Armidale Ballina Bathurst Bega Valley Bellingen Blacktown Blue Mountains Bogan Brewarinna Byron Cabonne Camden Campbelltown Canterbury Bankstown Central Coast Central Darling Cessnock City Council Clarence Valley Cobar Coffs Harbour City Coonamble Cumberland Dungog Shire Eurobodalla Fairfield Georges River Gilgandra Glen Innes Severn Goulburn Mulwaree Greater Hume Gunnedah Gwydir Hawkesbury Hornsby Hunters Hill Inner West Inverell Kempsey Ku-ring-gai Kyogle Lachlan Lake Macquarie City Lismore Lithgow Liverpool Liverpool Plains Maitland City Mid-Coast Moree Plains Muswellbrook Nambucca Valley Narrabri Narromine Newcastle City Northern Beaches Oberon Parramatta Penrith Port Macquarie-Hastings Port Stephens Queanbeyan-Palerang Richmond Valley Shoalhaven Singleton Snowy Monaro Sutherland Tamworth Temora Tenterfield The Hills Tweed Upper Lachlan Uralla Walcha Walgett Warren Wingecarribee Wollondilly
959	Storm	Eurobodalla Storms from 26 December 2020 onwards	Eurobodalla
954	Storm and flood	NSW Storms and Floods: 19 February 2021 onwards	Clarence Valley Coffs Harbour Kyogle Lismore Nambucca Valley Port Macquarie-Hastings Richmond Valley
948	Storm and flood	NSW Storms and Floods: 2 January 2021 onwards	Glen Innes Severn Narromine Parkes Tamworth
943	Storm and flood	NSW Storms and Floods: 10 December 2020 onwards	Armidale Ballina Bellingen Byron Clarence Valley Coffs Harbour Glen Innes Severn Gwydir Shire (extension as at 13 February 2021) Inverell Kempsey Kyogle Lismore Moree Plains Shire (extension as at 13 February 2021) Nambucca Valley Port Macquarie-Hastings Richmond Valley Tamworth Regional (extension as at 13 February 2021) Tenterfield Shire (extension as at 13 March 2021) Tweed
949	Storm	NSW Storms: 2 December 2020 onwards	Brewarrina Glen Innes Severn Warren
945	Storm	NSW Storms: 28 November 2020 onwards	Hilltops Upper Lachlan Weddin Wingecarribee
936	Storm and flood	NSW storms and floods: 20 October 2020 onwards	Armidale Bega Valley Central Coast Eurobodalla Mid-Coast Shoalhaven Snowy Valleys Tamworth
938	Storm	Central NSW Storms: 18 August 2020	Cabonne Oberon
923	Storm and flood	NSW Storms and Floods: 5 August 2020 onwards	Bega Valley Eurobodalla Goulburn Mulwaree Hilltops (extension as at 5 October 2020) Kiama Liverpool (extension as at 5 October 2020) Orange Queanbeyan-Palerang Shellharbour Shoalhaven Snowy Monaro Sutherland Upper Lachlan Wingecarribee (extension as at 5 October 2020) Wollongong Yass Valley
922	Storm and flood	NSW Storms and Floods: 25 July 2020 onwards	Bega Valley Central Coast(extension as at 9 October 2020) Eurobodalla Kiama Shellharbour Shoalhaven Newcastle Wingecarribee (extension as at 9 October 2020)

Financial year 2019-20

AGRN	Disaster types	Name of disaster	Local Government Area
918	Storm and flood	Western NSW Storms and Floods: 10 to 12 April 2020	Coonamble Gilgandra Lachlan Parkes Warren Warrumbungle
917	Storm and flood	Western NSW Storms and Floods: 3 to 4 April 2020	Bogan Central Darling Cobar Gilgandra Parkes
919	Storm and flood	Cabonne Shire Storms and Floods: 25 March 2020 onwards	Cabonne
916	Flood	Western NSW Floods: 26 February 2020 onwards	Bogan Bourke Brewarrina
898	Storm and flood	NSW Storms and Floods: 15 January 2020 onwards	Armidale Ballina Bathurst Bayside Bega Valley Bellingen Blacktown Blue Mountains Burwood Byron Camden Campbelltown Canada Bay Canterbury-Bankstown Central Coast Cessnock Clarence Valley Coffs Harbour Cumberland Dungog Eurobodalla Fairfield Georges River Gilgandra Glen Innes Severn Goulburn Mulwaree Hawkesbury Hornsby Hunter's Hill Inner West Kempsey Ku-ring-gai Kyogle Lake Macquarie Lane Cove Lismore Lithgow Liverpool Liverpool Plains Lord Howe Island Maitland Mid-Coast Mid-Western Mosman Nambucca Valley Narrabri Newcastle North Sydney Northern Beaches Oberon Parkes Parramatta Penrith Port Macquarie-Hastings Port Stephens Queanbeyan-Palerang Randwick Richmond Valley Ryde Shellharbour Shoalhaven Snowy Monaro Snowy Valleys Strathfield Sutherland Sydney Tamworth Tenterfield The Hills Tweed Upper Hunter Upper Lachlan Walgett Warrumbungle Waverley Willoughby Wingecarribee Wollondilly Wollongong Woollahra
878	Storm	NSW Storms: 26 November 2019 onwards	Campbelltown Canterbury-Bankstown Hawkesbury Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Lane Cove Liverpool Northern Beaches Sutherland Willoughby
881	Storm	Sydney and Southern Highlands Storms: 5 September 2019 onwards	Campbelltown Canterbury-Bankstown Hawkesbury Hornsby The Hills Wingecarribee
871	Bushfire	NSW Bushfires: 31 August 2019 onwards	Armidale Ballina Bega Valley Bellingen Blue Mountains Byron Central Coast Cessnock Clarence Valley Coffs Harbour Cootamundra-Gundagai Dungog Eurobodalla Glen Innes Severn Goulburn Mulwaree Greater Hume Gwydir Hawkesbury Inverell Kempsey Ku-ring-gai Kyogle Lake Macquarie Lismore Lithgow Mid-Coast Mid-Western Muswellbrook Nambucca Valley Narrabri Oberon Penrith Port Macquarie-Hastings Queanbeyan-Palerang Richmond Valley Shoalhaven Singleton Snowy Monaro Snowy Valleys Sutherland Tamworth Tenterfield Tweed Upper Hunter Upper Lachlan Uralla Wagga Wagga Walcha Wingecarribee Wollondilly
880	Bushfire	NSW North Coast Bushfires: Commencing 18 July 2019 onwards	Clarence Valley Kempsey Kyogle Mid-Coast Nambucca Valley Port Macquarie-Hastings Richmond Valley

Financial year 2018-19

AGRN	Disaster types	Name of disaster	Local Government Area
911	Storm and flood	Berrigan Shire Storms – 29 June 2019 onwards	Berrigan
869	Flood	NSW – Carrathool Floods: 22 April 2019 onwards	Carrathool
868	Storm and flood	Central West and Orana Storms and Floods: 29 March 2019 onwards	Gilgandra Warrumbungle
864	Bushfire	Tenterfield Bushfires: 9 March 2019 onwards	Tenterfield
843	Bushfire	Northern NSW Bushfires: 11 February 2019 onwards	Armidale Inverell Kyogle Tenterfield
862	Bushfire	Tamworth Regional and Upper Hunter Bushfires: 11 February 2019 onwards	Tamworth Upper Hunter
867	Bushfire	Singleton and Muswellbrook Bushfires: 11 February 2019 onwards	Muswellbrook Singleton
861	Storm	Eastern NSW Storms: 8 February 2019 onwards	Cumberland Hornsby Liverpool Parramatta The Hills Wollongong
857	Storm and flood	Hilltops and Cootamundra-Gundagai Storms and Floods: 5 February 2019 onwards	Cootamundra-Gundagai Hilltops
856	Storm	Parkes and Greater Hume Storms: 22 and 23 January 2019 onwards	Greater Hume Parkes
860	Bushfire	Snowy Valleys Bushfires: 17 January 2019 onwards	Snowy Valleys
845	Storm and flood	Inland New South Wales Storms and Floods: 11 January 2019 onwards	Bathurst Goulburn Mulwaree Hilltops Snowy Valleys
853	Bushfire	Parkes and Cabonne (Curembenya) Bushfire: 5 January 2019 onwards	Cabonne Parkes
866	Bushfire	Newcastle (Kooragang Island) Bushfires: 5 January 2019 onwards	Newcastle
855	Bushfire	Tamworth (Halls Creek Road) Bushfire: 3 January 2019 onwards	Tamworth
851	Bushfire	Glen Innes Severn (Highland Creek) Bushfire: 25 December 2018 onwards	Glen Innes Severn
834	Storm and flood	NSW Storms and Floods: 20 December 2018	Armidale Ballina Bellingen Blacktown Camden Canada Bay Canterbury-Bankstown Central Coast Clarence Valley Cumberland Dubbo Dungog Fairfield Hornsby Lithgow Liverpool Mid-Coast Muswellbrook Nambucca Valley Northern Beaches Parramatta Penrith Ryde Sydney Tamworth The Hills Upper Hunter Upper Lachlan Walcha Warrumbungle Waverley Woollahra
833	Storm and flood	NSW Storms and Floods: 13 December 2018 onwards	Blacktown Cabonne Campbelltown Canterbury-Bankstown Clarence Valley Hornsby Inverell Lachlan Orange Parramatta Ryde Sutherland The Hills Wollondilly
847	Bushfire	Armidale (Melrose) Bushfire: 1 December 2018 onwards	Armidale
842	Bushfire	Port Stephens and Cessnock Bushfires: 22 November 2018 onwards	Cessnock Port Stephens
841	Bushfire	Tamworth (Rockview) Bushfire: 30 October 2018 onwards	Tamworth
820	Bushfire	Bega Valley and Eurobodalla bushfires: 15 August 2018 onwards	Bega Valley Eurobodalla
819	Bushfire	Cessnock and Port Stephens bushfires: 15 August 2018 onwards	Cessnock Port Stephens
824	Bushfire	Clarence Valley and Glen Innes Severn bushfires: 14 August 2018 onwards	Clarence Valley Glen Innes Severn
823	Bushfire	Richmond Valley, Lismore and Kyogle bushfires: 12 August 2018 onwards	Kyogle Lismore Richmond Valley
818	Bushfire	Shoalhaven bushfires: 11 August 2018 onwards	Shoalhaven