Remote Indigenous communities spared by Cyclone Ilsa but evacuees unable to return home

Road access to the remote community Punmu has been cut off after Cyclone Ilsa. (Supplied: Edith Costello)

Severe Tropical Cyclone Ilsa has made its passage through Western Australia but many evacuees from the Great Sandy Desert are yet to return home with remote communities cut off by floodwaters.

Pilbara leaders are relieved remote communities went largely unscathed as Ilsa maintained her strength travelling inland.