Disaster Ready Fund - Round Four (2026-27)

The Disaster Ready Fund Round (DRF) is the Australian Government’s primary disaster resilience and risk reduction initiative.

Round Four of the DRF will build on previous rounds by providing up to $142.477 million for natural disaster risk reduction and resilience initiatives in 2026-27.

The total funding available is notionally allocated as follows:

• $104.608 million for infrastructure projects (infrastructure funding stream), encompassing the following primary project activity types:
  • investment in grey infrastructure
  • investment in green-blue infrastructure (including nature-based solutions)
  • investment in social infrastructure
  • investment in natural hazard monitoring infrastructure
• $34.869 million for other eligible project types
• $3 million for administrative support for Lead Agencies

The objectives of the program are to:

• increase the understanding of natural disaster impacts, as a first step towards reducing the risk of future natural disaster impacts,
• increase the resilience, adaptive capacity and/or preparedness of governments, community service organisations and affected communities to future natural disasters to minimise the potential impact of natural hazards and reduce the risk of future natural disasters, and
• reduce the exposure to risk, harm and/or severity of a future natural disaster’s impacts, including reducing the recovery burden for governments, cohorts at disproportionate risk, and/or affected communities.