North Queensland weather event – January/February

On this page

• Your local council disaster dashboard
• Community recovery and housing support
• Health and wellbeing
• Business disaster support
• Travel
• Power outages and electrical safety
• Queensland State Emergency Service (SES)

Your local council disaster dashboards

Stay up to date with what's happening in your local area.

Visit your local council dashboard for information about:

• evacuation centre openings and locations
• river heights
• road conditions and closures
• power and phone outages
• helpful contacts

Community recovery and housing support

School updates

Find the latest Queensland school closures information.

Housing assistance

• Housing assistance.
• Public housing tenants can submit non-urgent maintenance requests through the Tenant Assist Qld app .

Community recovery support

• Disaster support and recovery.

Health and wellbeing support

For life threatening emergency services call Triple Zero (000).

• For non-urgent medical health advice, call 13 HEALTH (13 43 25 84).
• If you need crisis mental health support, call Lifeline Australia anytime 13 11 14.
• For non-crisis mental health support, call Beyond Blue on 1300 22 46 36.

Business disaster support

• Natural disaster support for your business.

Travel

Plan your trip before you head out.

• QLDTraffic for all traffic alerts, road closures and condition updates for major roads in Queensland.
• Public transport services.

Remember if it’s flooded, forget it.

Power outages and electrical safety

Don't touch fallen power lines. Keep safe in severe weather.

• ERGON Energy (regional Queensland).
• ERGON staying safe in severe weather.

Queensland State Emergency Service (SES)

For life threatening emergency services call Triple Zero (000).

Call Queensland State Emergency Service (SES) 132 500 for non-life-threatening flood and storm emergency assistance.

Demand is extremely high during a severe weather event, you can request assistance online or download the app.

• Lodge a request online.
• Download the SES Assistance QLD App for Apple and Android devices.

Helpful contacts