Please note, although your property may not have been directly affected by this flood event, the event has been included in your suburb listing because according to the Bureau of Meteorology river gauge data, a catchment near your suburb recorded a high mark. This event may have affected your suburb.

The persistence of tropical Cyclone Peter, over and near Cape York Peninsula early in the month, brought heavy rains which resulted in major to moderate flooding in nearly all coastal streams from Tully to Cooktown. The major flood on the Barron River caused extensive, but mostly agricultural and road and bridge, damage around the Cairns area. These losses were exacerbated by extensive flooding of the Tully, Murray and Herbert rivers about the same time.