Natural disaster declarations from financial year 2019-20
This pages lists Local Government Areas (LGAs) that have been severely 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).
| 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 Blayney Blue Mountains Burwood Byron Cabonne Camden Campbelltown Canada Bay Canterbury-Bankstown Central Coast Cessnock Clarence Valley Coffs Harbour Coonamble 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 Narromine 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 |