3 rural lots across 19 ha in Douglas Shire. Dominant: Irrigated perennial horticulture.
How the 3 rural lots in this suburb are classified for agricultural potential — Class A is crop land, Class C is pasture, Class D has no significant agricultural value.
Long-term climate averages across the rural lots in this suburb.
Climate values are the average across rural lots in this area, drawn from Bureau of Meteorology station records.
Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.
Heavily wooded — typical of native-vegetation grazing or partial forest cover.
Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover, from satellite imagery.
Statutory water-plan coverage and water infrastructure across the 3 rural lots.
Statutory water-plan coverage and bore proximity across rural lots.
Source: Queensland water plan areas and the state groundwater (bores) database.
Share of rural lots intersecting each hazard or planning constraint. Sorted highest first; zero-exposure items collapsed at the bottom.
Satellite-mapped burnt-area history across rural lots — includes planned burns as well as bushfires.
Source: Queensland Government satellite fire-scar mapping.
Mean distances from rural lots in this suburb to everyday services and transport.
From the Queensland Land Use Mapping Program.
The land-use category covering the largest share of rural lots in Diwan. Per-lot land use, water access and grant eligibility live in the AgDSS app.
Census snapshot and the official population projection to 2046.
Source: ABS Census · Queensland Government population projections. Whole-suburb figures, not rural-only.
Declared disaster events give a sense of how often this area is affected by flood, fire, storm or drought.
Other rural suburbs in the same council.
Postcode 487xx neighbourhood — different councils, same rural region.
Diwan 4873 contains 3 rural lots covering 19 ha. The dominant Agricultural Land Class is Class A (crop land), and the most common land use is Irrigated perennial horticulture. Rural lots are those in a planning-scheme rural zone, plus — in the parts of Queensland where no council scheme is digitised — lots mapped as agricultural or production-forestry land use.
Across rural lots in Diwan 4873: 33% are mapped as bushfire hazard, 100% as flood hazard, and 100% fall in a cyclone zone. Mapped fire history covers 100% of rural lots over the last 20 years.
100% of rural lots in Diwan sit inside a statutory water plan area (Wet Tropics), and 100% inside a groundwater management area. The nearest registered bore averages 0.5 km away.
Agricultural Land Class and Strategic Cropping Land come from the Queensland Agricultural Land Audit. Carbon stock is derived from the ESA Climate Change Initiative Biomass product, and vegetation cover from Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover. Land use is from the Queensland Land Use Mapping Program. Hazard, water-plan, fire-history and native-title layers come from the responsible Queensland Government agencies, and lot identity from the Queensland Digital Cadastral Database.
Authoritative government and scientific datasets.
Data updated 2026-07-22. Rural lots are those in a planning-scheme rural zone, plus — in the parts of Queensland where no council scheme is digitised — lots mapped as agricultural or production-forestry land use. Site-specific intelligence per property is available in the AgDSS app.