Emergencies, disasters & outages

While the Gold Coast is renowned for its sunny weather, the city is still vulnerable to severe floods, storms, bushfires, cyclones and heat waves. The best defence in any natural disaster is to be prepared.

For details of the following types of local service outages and alerts, visit our Media Centre:

  • Water and sewerage outages
  • Local road closures
  • Beach closures
  • Recreational water quality alerts
  • Bushfire hazard reduction burns
  • Mosquito and midge control activities

For details of sports field closures due to wet weather or renovations, visit our Sports field closures page.

For weather alerts, power outages and road conditions, visit our City Dashboard.

City Dashboard

Visit our City dashboard, for the latest information on road closures, weather warnings, traffic and beach conditions.

Get Ready

Disasters can occur anywhere, anytime. Being prepared is our best protection. Find some practical ways to prepare for a disaster on this page.

During a disaster

Whatever the disaster, you need to tune in – log on – listen – and act.

Severe storms

You can reduce the risk of severe storms to yourself, family and property by taking these simple precautions.

Cyclones

You can reduce the risk of tropical cyclones to yourself, family and property by taking these simple precautions.

Floods

Find all the information you need to know about managing flood on the Gold Coast.

Bushfires

The City is safeguarding our community by managing the risk of bushfire in parks and reserves and by educating residents living in high risk areas.

Pandemics

You can reduce the risk of pandemics to yourself and family by taking these simple precautions.

Community disaster guide

Downloadable helpful resources to get ready for storm season.

Disaster recovery

Restoring our community and our city to a proper level of functioning can take a long time. We work closely with our partners to coordinate the recovery efforts following a disaster event.

Disaster coordination

The City of Gold Coast works with State and Federal emergency teams and the community to prepare for severe weather events and other emergencies.

Videos & resources

View Get Ready videos and download disaster management fact sheets in other languages.

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