Uriarra is a settlement in the Australian Capital Territory. It had been a forestry settlement from the 1920s to the 1980s.
The 2003 bushfires destroyed 16 houses in Uriarra, with only 6 houses still standing afterwards. 15 families moved away from the settlement, with 6 remaining.
In 2007 the ACT government decided to redevelop the settlement as a rural village, and development of new roads and infrastructure commenced. Blocks of land are for sale as at 2008, but no new building has commenced. The development has a number of restrictions on building, such as there is no treated town water, only untreated water from the Bendora Dam. Each house must have a rain water tank, sewerage treatment, and firefighting system. The village has a buffer zone for horse agistment.
