22,770 rural lots across 101 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.
Council boundary outlined; each circle is one rural suburb sized by rural-lot count. Click a circle to open the suburb page.
How the 22,770 rural lots across Western Downs Regional are classified for agricultural potential.
Long-term climate averages across rural lots in this council.
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.
Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover, from satellite imagery.
Statutory water-plan coverage across rural lots in Western Downs Regional.
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 in Western Downs Regional intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.
Satellite-mapped burnt-area history across rural lots — includes planned burns as well as bushfires.
Source: Queensland Government satellite fire-scar mapping.
From the Queensland Land Use Mapping Program.
The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Western Downs Regional.
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Declared disaster events give a sense of how often this council area is affected by flood, fire, storm or drought.
Other rural councils in the same region.
Across 22,770 rural lots in Western Downs Regional, the dominant Agricultural Land Class is Class A (crop land), and 12% of rural lots sit on mapped Strategic Cropping Land. The most common land use is Grazing native vegetation.
Rural lots in Western Downs Regional average 582 mm annual rainfall and about 32 days above 35°C a year, in the arid climate zone.
100% of rural lots in Western Downs Regional sit inside a statutory water plan area (Condamine and Balonne), and 86% inside a groundwater management area.
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.