By purpose · Disaster recovery
Disaster recovery grants in Australia
Australian grant programs for recovering from flood, fire, drought, storm or other declared disasters, from the Commonwealth, every state and territory and local councils, with the closing month on the front of every entry.
- 743programs on record
- 64open now
- 21closing inside 60 days
- 10jurisdictions
Counted from the catalogue on 24 Oct 2026
November 2026 is the busiest month in this lane, at 14 of the 41 disaster recovery programs with a published closing date inside the next year.
Who writes the cheque for disaster recovery projects
A netball club and an exporter are both after funding and they should be looking in completely different places. Here is where this one is.
Funded from both ends.
57% of this lane is council money and 43% comes from a state, territory or Commonwealth agency, so both are worth an application and they are rarely the same size of cheque.
- 424Councils57%
- 278State and territory37%
- 41Commonwealth6%
Who signs the cheques
- NSW Reconstruction Authority33
- Queensland Government27
- Department of Regional NSW19
- Rural Assistance Authority17
- Department of Trade, Business and Asian Relations13
- Victorian Government12
- Camden Council10
- Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water10
221 separate funders run at least one disaster recovery program in this catalogue. None of them holds more than 4% of it, so this money is spread across the country rather than concentrated in one agency.
Closing soonest
The soonest deadlines in this lane. 21 disaster recovery programs close inside the next 60 days.
- Closing this weekVICBusiness Recovery Advisory Service 2026 Registration formVictorian GovernmentAmount not statedCloses October 2026
- Closing this weekVICLGAs Bushfire recovery supportVictorian GovernmentAmount not statedCloses October 2026
- Closing this weekVICBusiness Recovery Advisory Service - Summer 2026 Victorian bushfiresVictorian GovernmentAmount not statedCloses October 2026
- Closing this weekLGACouncillors Discretionary FundFraser Coast RegionalAmount not statedCloses October 2026
- Closing this weekVICSmall Business Financial Counselling – Summer 2026 Victorian bushfiresVictorian GovernmentAmount not statedCloses October 2026
- Open nowLGAFestivals and Events FundingBallina Shire CouncilAmount not statedCloses November 2026
Also open
Open programs and ongoing intakes, in the same order: soonest deadline first. Colour down the left margin is how long is left.
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Every disaster recovery program here tells you the month. A trial tells you the day.
203 of the 743 disaster recovery programs in this catalogue carry a closing date the funder published, and every one of them shows its month on this page and on its own. The exact day, the funder's own closing time, the link to their application page and a countdown that stays right come with a 7 day free trial.
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7 days, no card, nothing to cancel. When the trial ends the exact dates and the application links lock again until you subscribe. The catalogue itself, every program page and the month each one closes stay open to everybody, with no account at all.
Oct
5 close
Nov
14 close
Dec
4 close
5 disaster recovery programs close in October 2026. Every square is a day you cannot read yet.
Crossings
Your project is rarely only one of these.
564 of the 743 disaster recovery programs in this catalogue are also filed under community, because that is how the funder describes them. Each of these is the same programs seen from a different door.
- Community564
- Environment468
- Capital works418
- Arts and culture414
- Business growth405
- Health366
- Events341
- Training and skills295
Counted as programs carrying both categories. The catalogue never adds these up, because a hall upgrade filed under three purposes is one program and not three.
About Australian disaster recovery grants
Australian grant programs for recovering from flood, fire, drought, storm or other declared disasters, pulled together from the Commonwealth, all 8 states and territories and local councils across the country. 743 programs are categorised under disaster recovery in this catalogue and 64 of them are open right now. Open programs closing soonest come first; closed rounds stay on the list, because most Australian grant programs run again and the alert list tells you the night one reopens.
Funded from both ends. 57% of this lane is council money and 43% comes from a state, territory or Commonwealth agency, so both are worth an application and they are rarely the same size of cheque. The largest single funder of disaster recovery projects in this catalogue is NSW Reconstruction Authority at 33 programs, and 221 separate funders run at least one.
203 of these 743 programs carry a closing date the funder published, and this page shows the month for every one of them. 41 of them close inside the next year, with November 2026 the busiest month at 14. "Not stated" against an amount means the funder published no figure, and a program with no closing date means the funder published no deadline: neither is filled in with a guess. Where an amount is published, most disaster recovery grants in this catalogue sit between $1k to $2m.
A category earns a page of its own at 25 programs, and the categories overlap on purpose. A council program upgrading a netball court is capital works and sport and community at the same time, because that is how the funder describes it and how three different people will look for it, so this page's count and the other categories' counts do not add up to the 4,049 programs in the catalogue, and this site never adds them up.
Confirm every detail on the funder's own page before you apply. Every program here has a page of its own showing the funder, the amount, who can apply and the date it was last checked. Everything closing in the next 60 days, the directory by state and territory, or every category we track.