Tasmanian council areas
The 29 council area pages we publish for Tasmania, in alphabetical order, each linked to its own page.
The zones and Tasmanian Planning Scheme codes we hold for each council, and which codes that council never published. A report can be bought for most Tasmanian addresses in the state address register; an address whose land or zone cannot be identified is refused before payment. An address the national address file (G-NAF) does not yet hold, such as a lot or unit of a very recent subdivision, cannot be found here yet. Each page links to the free check. Kingborough is listed and is the exception worth reading: it is in none of the Tasmanian Planning Scheme layers, because it still runs the Kingborough Interim Planning Scheme 2015 while the Tasmanian Planning Commission assesses its Local Provisions Schedule.
How Tasmania's codes work, and what a section 337 certificate is: Tasmanian planning codes.
Check an address in TasmaniaThe check is free and tells you which registers cover the address before you pay anything. A report for an address in Tasmania is $9.90 including GST, paid once.
Hazard maps in each council area
The share of each council’s addresses whose lot is at least partly in the mapped area of a Tasmanian Planning Scheme hazard code, any band counted, among the addresses whose council’s Local Provisions Schedule maps that code. Each is the figure that council area’s own page leads with, and the page names the bands. These are what the planning maps show, not a risk rating, and the list is alphabetical.
Addresses, not homes: an apartment building is many addresses on one lot. Not mapped: no map covers most of the council, because its Local Provisions Schedule maps no such code, or, in Kingborough, because the planning scheme that applies there is not one these figures count, so nothing is said about it. That does not mean there is no hazard. Partly mapped: the map covers only part of the council area, so no share is given. Other classes: the map records its own classes, so no share is given. No statistics: none is shown for that council area.
What each code counts
Bushfire-prone areas: The planning scheme and the building rules also treat land within 100 m of 1 ha or more of bushfire-prone vegetation as bushfire-prone, whether or not this map shows it.
Flood-prone areas: A flood-prone area is a planning map, not a flood model: overland flow is often not in it. The code can also apply to land this map does not show, where the council has other evidence the land can flood.
Landslip hazard bands: Every band counts, Low to High. Declared landslip areas under the Mineral Resources Development Act 1995 are a separate register and are not part of this count.
Coastal inundation: Every band counts, and so does an investigation area: land where the band has not yet been set, not a band lower than Low. The code plans for sea level rise.
Coastal erosion: Every band counts, and so does an investigation area: land where the band has not yet been set, not a band lower than Low.
We do not rank councils and we do not turn this into a safety score.
Bushfire-prone areas
- with a share
- 28
- partly mapped or other classes
- 0
- not mapped
- 1
- 0%
- under 10%
- 10%–25%
- 25%–40%
- 40%–60%
- 60% or more
- Partly mapped or other classes: no share
- Not mapped: no share
Flood-prone areas
- with a share
- 21
- partly mapped or other classes
- 0
- not mapped
- 8
- 0%
- under 2%
- 2%–5%
- 5%–15%
- 15%–30%
- 30% or more
- Partly mapped or other classes: no share
- Not mapped: no share
Landslip hazard bands
- with a share
- 28
- partly mapped or other classes
- 0
- not mapped
- 1
- 0%
- under 2%
- 2%–5%
- 5%–15%
- 15%–30%
- 30% or more
- Partly mapped or other classes: no share
- Not mapped: no share
Coastal inundation
- with a share
- 23
- partly mapped or other classes
- 0
- not mapped
- 6
- 0%
- under 2%
- 2%–5%
- 5%–15%
- 15%–30%
- 30% or more
- Partly mapped or other classes: no share
- Not mapped: no share
Coastal erosion
- with a share
- 23
- partly mapped or other classes
- 0
- not mapped
- 6
- 0%
- under 2%
- 2%–5%
- 5%–15%
- 15%–30%
- 30% or more
- Partly mapped or other classes: no share
- Not mapped: no share
| Council area | Bushfire-prone areas share of addresses | Flood-prone areas share of addresses | Landslip hazard bands share of addresses | Coastal inundation share of addresses | Coastal erosion share of addresses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Break O'Day | 57.8% | 4.6% | 19.1% | 7.9% | 9.6% |
| Brighton | 39.4% | 1.2% | 8.4% | 1.9% | 1.6% |
| Burnie | 22.7% | 3.1% | 35.7% | 0.3% | 0.6% |
| Central Coast | 41.3% | 0.5% | 24.1% | 6.0% | 4.9% |
| Central Highlands | 92.1% | Not mapped | 23.0% | Not mapped | Not mapped |
| Circular Head | 64.0% | Not mapped | 16.7% | 7.5% | 5.6% |
| Clarence | 26.9% | 33.0% | 10.1% | 8.2% | 5.0% |
| Derwent Valley | 54.0% | 6.7% | 28.3% | 1.6% | 2.1% |
| Devonport | 18.9% | Not mapped | 8.3% | 0.7% | 1.3% |
| Dorset | 49.7% | 4.9% | 16.0% | 2.3% | 2.5% |
| Flinders | 83% | Not mapped | 21% | 23% | 9% |
| George Town | 47.0% | 8.6% | 13.2% | 3.7% | 8.2% |
| Glamorgan-Spring Bay | 58.3% | Not mapped | 12.3% | 9.8% | 10.8% |
| Glenorchy | 10.0% | 29.6% | 5.6% | 1.0% | 1.0% |
| Hobart | 19.7% | 7.8% | 18.6% | 2.5% | 1.0% |
| Huon Valley | 81.3% | 4.3% | 37.5% | 5.8% | 7.2% |
| Kentish | 80.8% | 4.5% | 35.7% | Not mapped | Not mapped |
| King Island | 77.7% | Not mapped | 11.1% | 7.3% | 3.3% |
| Kingborough planning scheme not counted here | Not mapped | Not mapped | Not mapped | Not mapped | Not mapped |
| Latrobe | 41.5% | 3.9% | 2.3% | 7.4% | 4.4% |
| Launceston | 21.2% | 0.9% | 37.7% | 0.8% | 0.6% |
| Meander Valley | 52.6% | 5.7% | 16.7% | Not mapped | Not mapped |
| Northern Midlands | 43.4% | 4.6% | 5.6% | Not mapped | Not mapped |
| Sorell | 46.7% | 22.8% | 15.3% | 2.9% | 6.6% |
| Southern Midlands | 75.3% | 3.3% | 39.2% | Not mapped | Not mapped |
| Tasman | 91.1% | Not mapped | 35.8% | 6.0% | 8.6% |
| Waratah-Wynyard | 47.7% | 2.5% | 19.7% | 1.4% | 5.8% |
| West Coast | 63.4% | 0.0% | 19.7% | 6.3% | 3.4% |
| West Tamar | 43.1% | 0.7% | 37.2% | 4.1% | 6.6% |
Counts derived by WattleAddr from these registers, by our method. Addresses: LIST Address Points from theLIST ©State of Tasmania. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/; Lots: LIST Cadastral Parcels from theLIST ©State of Tasmania. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/; Zones, which decide whose Local Provisions Schedule applies: Tasmanian Planning Scheme - Zoning from theLIST ©State of Tasmania. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/; Hazard codes: Tasmanian Planning Scheme - Code Overlays from theLIST ©State of Tasmania. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/; Council boundaries: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 3, 2021, Local Government Areas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Address and parcel data: Land Tasmania (Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania), the creator. Tasmanian Planning Scheme data: Tasmanian Planning Commission, custodian, distributed by Land Tasmania through theLIST. Used under the licence named in each notice; none of them has reviewed or endorsed this report. The same holds for the counts on this page, which we derived: neither has reviewed or endorsed them. Licences: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia for theLIST data, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/; Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 for the council boundaries, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Hazard maps by council, Tasmania
Every council area on one map, one hazard at a time, shaded by the figures in the table above. Select a council area on the map to see where the mapped land is.