Your quick look · Katoomba 2780, NSW
Bushfire (incl. grassfire) is the first thing to know about this place.
This is the free quick look: your top risk in full, the kind of household your answers describe, and an honest count of everything the full report holds. Nothing here replaces official warnings — in an emergency, call 000.
Postcode level · Preliminary Read from your postcode alone — no household answers yet, so nothing below is about your home specifically. The check takes that further.
Computed for your household · Tue 27 October 2026
Basis: withHarmora engine v2 — the 91-risk register · NSW Bush Fire Prone Land mapping (NSW RFS) · SILO gridded climate data 2005–2024 (Queensland Government, from Bureau of Meteorology observations) · NPWS Fire History (CC BY 4.0).
Your top risk, in full
Bushfire (incl. grassfire) — 68 of 100high confidence
Bushfire (incl. grassfire) is a real concern for your household — driven first by fire-history-rich: 17 fire seasons are recorded in this postcode.
Engine rank #1 for your household before point-level refinement.
- fire-history-rich — because 17 fire seasons are recorded in this postcode.
First move: Write your household emergency plan — Decide together: when you would leave and when you would stay, where you would go, a meeting point if separated, and how you will follow official warnings. (Australian Red Cross — RediPlan (PDF))
Calculated from official mapping and your answers — the evidence behind every number is printed in the full report.
This household
Your household type is read from your answers
Right now this place has a postcode, not a household. The type — and the readiness posture that comes with it — is derived from your own answers, never assigned from a postcode alone.
Run the free check — 16 short questions
No type yet — but this place still has a today worth passing on: share Katoomba 2780, NSW’s today card.
What the full report holds
Counted, not teased — the whole book, section by section
Your full report assesses 91 risks for this household: 14 score as real concerns here, 10 gaps are measured in your reserves, 7 evacuation capabilities rated, and 10 are shown as “data pending” — named, never silently dropped or scored on a guess.
Natural hazards
18 items · 4 bite at household level · 11 assessed · 2 data pendingThe events the land itself can send.
Environment & health
11 items · 3 bite at household level · 10 assessedWhat the air, water and house fabric do over time.
Pests, trees & the building
8 items · 1 bite at household level · 7 assessed · 1 data pendingSlow damage and things that bite, bore or fall.
Infrastructure & daily life
9 items · 3 bite at household level · 8 assessed · 1 data pendingThe services a household quietly depends on.
Inside the home
16 items · 3 bite at household level · 6 assessedThe risks that start indoors — where most harm actually happens.
Your reserves — the gaps
13 items · 0 bite at household level · 10 assessedWhat an interruption would need, minus what you told us you hold.
Getting out & landing somewhere
16 items · 0 bite at household level · 7 assessed · 6 data pendingLeaving early is a capability, not a hope: vehicle, route, destination.
Your four-stage plan
22 steps, in the order that helps mostStage 1 · The first 72 hours — in full
- Write your household emergency plan — Decide together: when you would leave and when you would stay, where you would go, a meeting point if separated, and how you will follow official warnings.
- Store drinking water for three days — Store at least 10 litres of drinking water per person — enough for three days if taps stop or water is unsafe.
- Pack a first aid kit and your regular medications — A household first aid kit, plus at least three days of each person's regular prescription medication kept with the kit, and spare glasses if you wear them.
- Set up light and emergency information — A torch for each person, spare batteries, a battery or wind-up radio set to your local ABC frequency, and a charged power bank for phones.
- Secure your documents and emergency cash — Copy your ID, insurance, Medicare and property documents to a USB and cloud storage, keep a printed set in a waterproof pouch, and hold spare cash in small notes.
- Stock three days of no-cook food — Keep three days of long-life food your household actually eats, plus a manual can opener — nothing that needs refrigeration or cooking.
Stage 2 · The first week, and beyond — 6 steps
Stage 3 · The season, maintained — 4 steps
Stage 4 · Skills & self-reliance — 6 steps
Also inside: the reason behind every number, your evacuation section, and the four-stage plan. This count is postcode-level for now. Run the free check to read it at household level.
This season
The season, not just the map
A strong El Niño pattern is in place. This event is running atypically wet across much of eastern Australia, so your report holds its flood and storm weight where it is rather than discounting it the way a textbook dry El Niño would suggest — and reads your fire exposure against this season's outlook, not an average one.
Assessed for December conditions under a strong El Niño pattern (2026 snapshot, reviewed monthly against the Bureau of Meteorology's Climate Driver Update).
Fire history
17 fire seasons on record
Most recent wildfire season: 2023–24. Across the record, 45% of this postcode has burned at least once.
SOURCE: NPWS Fire History, NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (via SEED, CC BY 4.0) — wildfire seasons 1902–03 to 2026–27.
Your plan, first steps
Stage 1 starts here
- Write your household emergency plan — Decide together: when you would leave and when you would stay, where you would go, a meeting point if separated, and how you will follow official warnings.
- Store drinking water for three days — Store at least 10 litres of drinking water per person — enough for three days if taps stop or water is unsafe.
- Pack a first aid kit and your regular medications — A household first aid kit, plus at least three days of each person's regular prescription medication kept with the kit, and spare glasses if you wear them.
Open my plan Stage 1 is open to everyone; the full four stages live in the full report.
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