Natural hazards portal

Welcome to the natural hazards portal. A ‘one-stop-shop’ of information related to natural hazards within our Region.

New to our regional council is the property hazard viewer, this can be found in the hazard maps tile, which will show all the potential natural hazards by individual property.

(Hover and select a tile image to explore what’s available and learn more about what the hazards are, where they are and how we can collectively mitigate them.

Eroding Foreshore Portal Tile 2
Hazards in Northland
Te Ao (4)
Te Ao Māori
Haz Maps (4)
Hazard maps
Flood Risk Management 2
Flood risk management
Coastal Ersion 1 2
Coastal hazards
River Flood (2)
River flooding
Tsunami Warning Hazard Sign
Tsunami
Contaminated Land 2
Land hazards
Climate Change 2
Climate change
R&R (3)
Research & reports
Weather 4
Weather
ED Online 2
Environmental data

Natural hazard information in LIMs

Northland Regional Council provides information about natural hazards to Whangarei District Council, Kaipara District Council, and Far North District Council to include in LIMs (Land Information Memoranda).

We must provide the relevant district council with any known information identifying:

  • natural hazards and potential natural hazards; 
  • impacts of climate change that exacerbate natural hazards or potential natural hazards; and 
  • the cumulative or combined effects of the hazards and impacts identified. 

We don’t have to provide all the information we hold about a hazard, as long as we have covered these points.

Please ensure you do your own due diligence before making property decisions. Although we have a responsibility to provide the information we already know, we are not required to search for or enquire about information relating to a hazard or possible hazard beyond what we already know.

If you need more information than we already hold, you may need to check other sources or commission further research independently. Some key sources that may be useful include:

Under the law, privacy is a narrow subject relating to identifying information about people. The state of land is not a privacy issue.

Information labelled as confidential may not in fact be confidential under the law. Some common examples where people think information is confidential, but it may meet the requirements for providing to a district council, are:

  • reports that have been commissioned by an individual about their property and subsequently made known to a territorial authority or regional council, such as a Geotech report for a building or resource consent
  • reports that have been commissioned for a council’s internal purposes.

If conflicting information about a hazard is known to us (for example, differences between sources of information, depending on their purpose and approach) and meets the requirements of the Act, it should be provided to the relevant district council.

The purpose of a LIM is to put the reader on notice that a natural hazard has been identified. It is not the territorial authority assessing which information is the ‘right’ information. The aim of the Act and the Regulations is that the LIM reader will have enough information to do their own due diligence.