Access to information is critical leading up to, during and following disaster events.
This page provides a range of resources, including translated resources, to help you make informed decisions and protect yourself, your family and your home in the event that a disaster affects the local area.
We are committed to educating staff and residents about natural disasters and has developed a number of resources with various tips on preparing for disaster events.
Are You Disaster Ready?
This series of educational videos and documents is designed to assist Townsville’s residents to better prepare for natural disasters.
These resources are available in English, French, Karen, Kinyarwanda, Sango, Somali, and Swahili.
There are many things you can do to reduce your chances of becoming a victim during a disaster. Taking some simple precautions now before the onset of any natural hazard will help protect you, your family and your property.
Improve your understanding of tropical cyclone categories and their impacts. This video explains what the different tropical cyclones categories are, the hazards involved and the potential damage a tropical cyclone can cause.
Disasters such as power outage or flooding can have a significant impact on food safety, and have the potential to spread foodborne illness if not managed well.
This information sheet provides advice on making sure your water is safe to use. In the aftermath of a disaster, the supply of drinking water, private water supplies, tanks, wells and bores may be contaminated or stopped all together.
Your guide to living in North Queensland. This guide assists in educating residents and visitors about the natural dangers that can occur in North Queensland.
Townsville is a great place to live, but there's a serious side to living in the north. Types of natural disaster events, which may affect the Townsville area, include: cyclone, storm tide, king tide, flood, bushfire, tsunami, earthquake, landslide and pandemic.
Cyclones can be a part of life in summer. Think about ways you can prepare your family by stocking an emergency kit. Before the cyclone season you should make every effort to prepare yourself and your family (including pets) by having your emergency kit stocked and ready to go.
This is a fact sheet to assist owners in ensuring their pets are included in their disaster plans. A disaster may mean evacuation or confining a pet at home, and you should know how to best care for your pets in either case.
Take the time to discuss what you and your family will do in the event of a disaster or emergency situation. Prepare your emergency plan ahead of time. Then, if an emergency threatens, you will know how to best respond.
This factsheet will assist you in developing a household emergency plan that includes evacuation and shelter considerations based on your circumstances and exposure to risk.
There are new changes to the way you get warnings for natural disaster events in Queensland. The AWS means that warnings will be consistent across the country, across hazards, and easier to follow and understand. Make sure you familiarise yourself with the AWS to ensure you are prepared during disaster season. Also available in other languages.
This guide will assist you in determining if your property is at risk of inundation from a storm tide and whether evacuation is required. If you are not required to evacuate, your home is often the safest place for you.
These detailed suburb maps will assist you in determining if your property is at risk of inundation from a storm tide and whether evacuation is required. If you are not required to evacuate, your home is often the safest place for you.
Council has developed a public-facing platform that acts as a one-stop shop for essential information about the local area in times of disaster. By providing easy access to up-to-date information (for example, road closures, weather updates, school closures, emergency warnings, etc.), this dashboard provides situational awareness to the general community.
