The Primary Industries Natural Disaster Damage Survey is a simple online survey that the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) and Local Land Services (LLS) staff, farmers and agricultural industry representatives can use to record damage to primary production and animals from natural disasters such as floods, fires and storms.

Image: Flood damage along fence lines can be costly and time consuming to repair.

If your property is impacted by a natural disaster such as a severe storm event, flood or fire, the DPI encourages landowners to contact their Local Land Services office in the first instance and also complete the Primary industries natural disaster damage survey.

This helps the DPI to help you, and provides important information that may be used in applications for disaster declarations.

The damage survey allows you to:

• record the number of crops, animals, infrastructure and other primary industries damaged in a single event
• add photos to the assessment
• see the severity of damage in your area.

DPI can view survey information in real time and results are used to determine:

• the area the natural disaster has impacted and the scale of the event
• the severity of the impact
• the value of impact to primary production
• where and what assistance or resources may be needed.

This source of “ground truth” information helps the Government and communities understand the scale and regional distribution of the impact of a disaster on agriculture and target resources and assistance in an area.

To report damage, submit a survey on your phone or computer. It’s free and takes just a few minutes to complete.