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Gulf & North West

Mount Isa City

690 rural lots across 16 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.

690
Rural lots
4.08 M ha
Rural land
Pasture land
Dominant land class (Class C)
20 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Mount Isa City — rural suburbs

© State of Queensland · Digital Earth Australia

Council boundary outlined; each circle is one rural suburb sized by rural-lot count. Click a circle to open the suburb page.

Suburb circles · sized by rural lots
10 500 5,000+
Agricultural land

Agricultural Land Class mix

How the 690 rural lots across Mount Isa City are classified for agricultural potential.

Class C Pasture land
Class A — crop land 0%
Class B — limited crop 0%
Class C — pasture 100%
Class D — non-agricultural 0%
Queensland Agricultural Land Audit — Class A is crop land, Class D has no significant agricultural value. Share of classified rural lots.
Climate

Rainfall, temperature, growing window

Long-term climate averages across rural lots in this council.

Annual rainfall
498 mm
Semi-arid
Extreme heat days
139 / year
Hot summers
Climate zone
arid
dominant across rural lots

Climate values are the average across rural lots in this area, drawn from Bureau of Meteorology station records.

Carbon

Carbon profile

Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.

20 tCO₂e/ha
mean across rural lots
52.20 M tCO₂e
total estimated
Satellite above-ground biomass, summarised per lot.
Vegetation

Cover profile

Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover, from satellite imagery.

Green cover28%
Forest cover100%
Water

Water plans and groundwater

Statutory water-plan coverage across rural lots in Mount Isa City.

Water access

Water plans and groundwater

Statutory water-plan coverage and bore proximity across rural lots.

100%
in a water plan area — Gulf
11%
in a groundwater management area
Water infrastructure nearby
2.0
km to a bore
1525.5
km to a dam
1
licences within 1 km
A registered bore is within easy driving — typical of farming country.
Groundwater area: Nicholson Groundwater Management Area

Source: Queensland water plan areas and the state groundwater (bores) database.

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Mount Isa City intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Flood hazard 93%
Bushfire hazard 81%
Wetland 53%
State environmental significance 53%
Matters of State Environmental Significance mapping.
Threatened ecological 28%
Heritage-listed 26%
Protected area 3%
No exposure
Cyclone zone · Storm-surge zone · Sea-level-rise exposure · Coastal erosion · Acid-sulfate soils · Koala habitat
Fire history

Mapped fire scars

Satellite-mapped burnt-area history across rural lots — includes planned burns as well as bushfires.

81%
of lots burnt in 20 yrs
42%
burnt in the last 5 yrs
2025
most recent fire year

Source: Queensland Government satellite fire-scar mapping.

Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the Queensland Land Use Mapping Program.

Grazing native vegetation

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Mount Isa City.

Rural suburbs in Mount Isa City (15)

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Suburb Rural lots
Mount Isa 4825 204
Gunpowder 4825 107
Camooweal 4828 98
Breakaway 4825 70
Barkly 4825 63
Lanskey 4825 31
Fisher 4825 22
Kalkadoon 4825 17
Spreadborough 4825 17
Ryan 4825 12
Sunset 4825 7
Healy 4825 4
Mica Creek 4825 3
Happy Valley 4825 2
Pioneer 4825 1
8 declared disasters · last 5 yrs

Declared disaster events give a sense of how often this council area is affected by flood, fire, storm or drought.

Land character
Tenure Freehold Ag region North West

About Mount Isa City

What is the agricultural land in Mount Isa City like?

Across 690 rural lots in Mount Isa City, the dominant Agricultural Land Class is Class C (pasture land). The most common land use is Grazing native vegetation.

What's the climate of Mount Isa City's rural land?

Rural lots in Mount Isa City average 498 mm annual rainfall and about 139 days above 35°C a year, in the arid climate zone.

What water access do rural lots in Mount Isa City have?

100% of rural lots in Mount Isa City sit inside a statutory water plan area (Gulf), and 11% inside a groundwater management area.

What data sources are used?

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.

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.