How to Easily and Quickly Check Flood Zones by Address

It is estimated that more than one million properties (around 1 in 10 private homes) in Australia are impacted by floods annually.

Whether you are a prospective homeowner, buyer or seller in a flood-prone region or an insurer or property professional seeking accurate, transparent flood risk information – the best way to do so is a digitised check of flood zone data via address.

Updated Australian flood zone data from a trusted source will greatly help in making informed decisions around real and potential flood risk.

The Importance of Identifying Flood Zones

To clarify, a flood zone is an area that has a higher potential for flooding. They are most commonly attributed to areas and properties located in a low-lying area or near a river, lake, creek, major stormwater drains, or similar.

As you can imagine, this likelihood varies based on location (suburb and state) as well as the position of the property.

Why Check Yourself?

Construction and changes in topography and flood zone designations change overtime, so it’s important that any flood data in Australia that you use is the most up to date

Even a flood zone that seems low risk(for instance 1%) still means that the area is expected to have a devastating flood every 100 years, and it could be near the end of that time cycle

Properties located in a flood zone not only face higher risk of experiencing damage from flooding, but will also usually be required to pay a higher insurance premium than property owners located outside of flood zones

Flood zones are important to be aware of because they can impact a property’s ability to be resold

How Landchecker’s Flood Zone Map & Overlay Can Help

Whilst each state seeks to provide information regarding flood zones to the general public, in many cases and areas they still lack a consolidated source of information. This in turn means that there are data coverage limitations and inconsistencies in the flood zone data.

Landchecker helps to overcome these LGA discrepancies by consolidating state and local government dataset providing more targeted, digitised coverage of flood levels and an interactive flood zone map. This enables you to more accurately check flood zone data by address.

Landchecker utilise a range of relevant data (including from Geospatial Specialists) to outline flood behaviour and provide a general overview of the possibility of flooding in a particular area.

A flood zone map includes a range of data, which often includes the following:

Recorded historic floodlines and floodplains

Rainfall and flood gauge records

Stormwater infrastructure

Probable flood flows and volumes

Range of flood levels/depth

Flood hazard overlays and reference layers for planning flood maps

The overlay tool helps guide development and show flood events for the purpose of planning:

It’s helpful to use this Australian flood data for future planning and development, as well as insurance and water safety and quality

Together, the flood zone map and overlay tool can help you be better prepared against flood damage, and provide you with the necessary information to determine if a property is a sound future investment

You can even determine the lowest allowable construction elevation to avoid flood risk

It’s very simple to use and accurately illustrates the risk involved with the specific property address

How to Access Landchecker Flood Zone Map & Overlay Data

Visualise flood data in map-view by selecting the flood filer in ‘due diligence’. A visual reading of this data is easy to interpret, even for the untrained eye.

You can turn on the contours to see how flood levels are affected by the surrounding terrain and get a feel for how this may shape future flooding events.

Since some state flood data is incomplete, Landchecker flood data is sourced not only from the state, but also the local council, to ensure the datasets are more relevant and complete than any competitors only sourcing state data.

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