Historic Flood Warnings
Summary
This record is for Approval for Access product AfA435. Listing of Severe Flood Warnings, Flood Warnings and Flood Alerts issued since the flood warning system went live on January 26th 2006 to the present. This dataset includes flood warnings issued by the Environment Agency. Flood warnings are issued for flooding from rivers and the sea and, for a limited number of locations, for groundwater flooding. There are three flood warning codes and a notification when warnings are removed. These are:
- Severe Flood Warning: Severe flooding. Danger to life.
- Flood Warning: Flooding is expected. Immediate action required.
- Flood Alert: Flooding is possible. Be prepared.
- Warning no longer in force: Flood warnings and flood alerts that have been removed in the last 24 hours. Live flood warnings in force are shown on GOV.UK and are available as a separate live feed on GOV.UK.
Categories
Use limitation statement
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Licence
Open Government LicenceAttribution statement
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Technical information
- Update frequency
quarterly
- Lineage
- Historic record of flood alerts, flood warnings and severe flood warnings issued by the Environment Agency's using Floodline Warnings Direct (January 2006 to April 2017) and Flood Warning System (from April 2017 onwards).
Spatial information
Coordinate reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700Geographic extent
- Latitude from: 49.943 to 55.816
- Longitude from: -6.236 to 2.072
Metadata information
Language
English
Metadata identifier
88bed270-d465-11e4-8669-f0def148f590
Data and Supporting Information
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| Historic_Flood_Warnings.zip | ZIP | Download |