Get Ready
Queensland is Australia's most disaster-prone state and the Gold Coast has its fair share of natural disasters. Being prepared can help safeguard your family, pets and property against severe storms, cyclones, floods and bushfires.
By making a plan now, you can help keep your home, loved ones and community safer.
It's easy to do and it won't take you long.
Households that plan together stay safer together.
Make sure you get the household involved so everyone knows what to do if the weather turns bad.
You might even want to include your neighbours or friends.
Start making your plan
Household Resilience Ratings Program
We are partnering with the Resilient Building Council to empower residents to strengthen their homes against natural hazards such as floods, bushfires, severe storms and cyclones.
The initiative will provide free assessments to homeowners who will receive personalised, practical guidance about how to reduce disaster risk and better prepare for extreme weather.
The program will deliver:
Stage 1 – free on-site expert assessments for 40 homes
Expressions of interest are now closed.
Successful applicants will be contacted in September 2025. On-site assessments will be conducted during October and November 2025 by expert assessors.
Stage 2 – free self-assessments for 1000 homes
Expressions of interest will be open from March 2026. Homes must meet specific criteria to be selected for participation.
Both stages will deliver tailored Resilience Ratings reports showing how homes are likely to perform against multiple hazards, and which upgrades will make the biggest impact.
For more information and next steps please visit the Resilient Building Council.
Subscribe to Gold Coast Alerts
Receive severe weather alert notifications about potentially dangerous situations like flooding and bushfires in your local area.
Subscribe to Gold Coast Alerts
Natural hazards that can impact the Gold Coast
Learn more about how you can protect yourself, family and property before, during and after the following disasters:
Visit the Queensland Government website for information about what to do before, during and after the following disaster events:
Disaster recovery
We coordinate recovery programs with our partner organisations to help restore our communities, environment infrastructure and economy after a disaster. Find out what community support is available after a disaster.
Visit the Disaster recovery page
Domestic violence
Natural disasters have been shown to increase instances of domestic and family violence. If you or someone you know are affected by this, please reach out for help.
Visit the Domestic & family violence page