Flood Risk in Inglewood, QLD: 2026 Assessment

Inglewood, located in Queensland, 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 Queensland.

Historical flood data indicates that the McIntyre River has overflowed its banks on several occasions, impacting low-lying areas of Inglewood.

Inglewood faces a moderate risk of flooding due to its proximity to the McIntyre River and local drainage patterns. Intense rainfall events can lead to riverine and flash flooding.

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.

Inglewood sits within ClimateNest's suburb-level hazard model for flood risk. 13.8% of the suburb's land area is mapped in high-risk flood zones and 73.8% 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 Inglewood.

Inglewood (postcode 4387) 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 tropical cyclone (16.4% of land in high-risk zones), riverine flood (13.8% of land in high-risk zones), bushfire (12% of land in high-risk zones). Exposure is not uniform across Inglewood — individual properties can sit well above or below these averages, so an address-level check is recommended before buying, selling or insuring.