Get Ready Queensland

Three simple steps to get ready

When it comes to extreme weather events in Queensland, it’s not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’. The Get Ready Queensland website and campaign encourages Queenslanders to get ready with three simple steps:

• Step 1: Understand your risk – impacts from extreme weather are different for everyone. Learn about what can happen where you live and how it could affect your family.
• Step 2: Prepare a household emergency plan – make a household emergency plan so your family knows what to do and who to contact in extreme weather. It takes just a few minutes and will give you peace of mind that your information is in one place.
• Step 3: Pack an emergency kit – grab a few extra items next time you are at the supermarket to make an emergency kit.

2022-2023

We have a beautiful and diverse state, but we are also home to the most natural disasters in the country. Queenslanders face severe storms, floods, cyclones, bushfires, heatwaves and even threats from tsunami and earthquakes. During 2022, more than half of the state was impacted by extreme weather – often by more than one weather event in just a few months.

For the 2022-2023 summer disaster season, the Bureau of Meteorology has predicted a La Nina weather pattern for the third year in a row, bringing wetter than average conditions again to Queensland. Every household is encouraged to get ready now.

Research shows that well over half of all Queenslanders are already getting ready this year – so make sure you and your household are too.

More information

For disaster preparedness advice visit the Get Ready Queensland website.