Flood Risk in Murwillumbah, NSW: 2026 Assessment

Murwillumbah, located in New South Wales, has a notable flood risk profile based on available data including proximity to waterways, elevation, and historical flood events. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) maintains river height and flood warning data for catchments across New South Wales.

The Tweed River regularly floods Murwillumbah, impacting businesses and residences.

Murwillumbah is highly susceptible to flooding due to its location on the Tweed River and surrounding floodplain. Heavy rainfall events can cause the river to overflow, inundating residential and commercial areas.

For a comprehensive property-specific flood assessment including address-level elevation data, flood overlay mapping, and insurance cost estimates, use the ClimateNest full analysis tool. General suburb data cannot replace a site-specific evaluation.

Murwillumbah sits within ClimateNest's suburb-level hazard model for flood risk. 8.5% of the suburb's land area is mapped in high-risk flood zones and 62.4% in moderate-risk zones, based on the national hazard overlay. Exposure at this scale varies street by street, which is why an address-level check matters before you buy or insure a specific property in Murwillumbah.

Murwillumbah (postcode 2484) is tracked in ClimateNest's suburb hazard model, which maps the share of the suburb's land exposed to each hazard at high and moderate levels. The suburb's highest high-risk exposures are bushfire (10.5% of land in high-risk zones), riverine flood (8.5% of land in high-risk zones), extreme wind (5.1% of land in high-risk zones). Exposure is not uniform across Murwillumbah — individual properties can sit well above or below these averages, so an address-level check is recommended before buying, selling or insuring.