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Far North Queensland

Napranum Aboriginal Shire

56 rural lots across 1 suburbs. Dominant land use: Irrigated perennial horticulture.

56
Rural lots
127,710 ha
Rural land
Limited crop land
Dominant land class (Class B)
33 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Napranum Aboriginal Shire — 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 56 rural lots across Napranum Aboriginal Shire are classified for agricultural potential.

Class B Limited crop land
Class A — crop land 5%
Class B — limited crop 86%
Class C — pasture 9%
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
1,836 mm
Wet
Extreme heat days
54 / year
Hot summers
Climate zone
tropical
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.

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

Cover profile

Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover, from satellite imagery.

Green cover55%
Forest cover100%
Water

Water plans and groundwater

Statutory water-plan coverage across rural lots in Napranum Aboriginal Shire.

Water access

Water plans and groundwater

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

100%
in a water plan area — Cape York
100%
in a groundwater management area
Water infrastructure nearby
3.1
km to a bore
1863.7
km to a dam
1
licences within 1 km
A registered bore is within easy driving — typical of farming country.
Groundwater area: Cape York Underground Water 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 Napranum Aboriginal Shire intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Flood hazard 100%
Cyclone zone 84%
Bushfire hazard 38%
State environmental significance 25%
Matters of State Environmental Significance mapping.
Acid-sulfate soils 18%
No exposure
Storm-surge zone · Sea-level-rise exposure · Coastal erosion · Wetland · Koala habitat · Protected area · Threatened ecological · Heritage-listed
Fire history

Mapped fire scars

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

100%
of lots burnt in 20 yrs
100%
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.

Irrigated perennial horticulture

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Napranum Aboriginal Shire.

Rural suburbs in Napranum Aboriginal Shire (1)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Mission River 4874 71
4 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 Cape York

About Napranum Aboriginal Shire

What is the agricultural land in Napranum Aboriginal Shire like?

Across 56 rural lots in Napranum Aboriginal Shire, the dominant Agricultural Land Class is Class B (limited crop land). The most common land use is Irrigated perennial horticulture.

What's the climate of Napranum Aboriginal Shire's rural land?

Rural lots in Napranum Aboriginal Shire average 1,836 mm annual rainfall and about 54 days above 35°C a year, in the tropical climate zone.

What water access do rural lots in Napranum Aboriginal Shire have?

100% of rural lots in Napranum Aboriginal Shire sit inside a statutory water plan area (Cape York), and 100% 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.