page_title: Fernvale, Queensland
section_title: Floods
hierarchical_section_title: Fernvale, Queensland / History / Floods
caption_attribution_description: English: Engraving of the Vernor family rescued during the February flood near Fernvale, 1893. The script under the engraving describes the members of the Vernor family stranded in trees in the Upper Brisbane River when their punt capsized during the floods. After a long night in the trees the family of eight was rescued and brought ashore exhausted and hungry.
context_page_description: Fernvale is a town and locality in the Somerset Region, South East Queensland, Australia. At the 2016 Australian Census Fernvale had an estimated population of 3,209. It is a rapidly developing rural township located within the urban footprint of the South East Queensland Regional Plan 2009–2031.
context_section_description: The Brisbane River valley has always been troubled by alternating drought and flood, and Fernvale and Wivenhoe Pocket have several times been inundated, with many homes and buildings washed away.  In the devastating flood of 1893 the flood reached a height of about {{convert|24|ft}} above the 1890 flood level and occurred so rapidly that little could be saved.
  In the 1980s the building of the Wivenhoe Dam brought new employment and families into the area. In 2011, the town was once again badly affected by floods, with one hundred and twelve homes inundated in Fernvale and twenty-five in Vernor. Residents also described an abundance of snakes in the floods.
caption: An engraving depicting the Vernor family rescue
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