Flood Warning Areas

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Last updated:
26 March 2024
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Summary

This record is for Approval for Access product AfA054 Flood Warning Areas. These are geographical areas where we expect flooding to occur and where we provide a Flood Warning Service. They generally contain properties that are expected to flood from rivers or the sea and in some areas, from groundwater. Specifically, Flood Warning Areas define locations within the Flood Warning Service Limit that represent a discrete community at risk of flooding.

Flood Warnings are issued when flooding is expected to occur, Severe Flood Warnings are issued to similar areas when there is a danger to life or widespread disruption is expected.

INFORMATION WARNING: Groundwater flood warning areas are property based, usually containing a discrete urban area, suburb, city, village, or hamlet and were created in various ways. In general specialists used the national groundwater dataset, historical maps, bedrock geology and records of properties affected by groundwater flooding in the past to create the groundwater flood warning areas. Additional data sources, including groundwater susceptibility maps, borehole data, local modelling and LiDAR may also have been used depending on the location of the area.

Flood Warning Areas can be created, amended, or deleted at certain times in the year. This dataset was last updated on: 22nd November 2023

The next scheduled updates where changes may be introduced are: 21st February 2024 22nd May 2024 14th August 2024 and 20th November 2024 Please note that these dates may change at short notice if there are system issues or a large-scale flood event. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2024. All rights reserved.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2024-03-05
Access contraints
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Harvest GUID
87e5d78f-d465-11e4-9343-f0def148f590
Extent
Latitude: 55.816° to 49.943°
Longitude: -6.236° to 2.072°
Spatial reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date
2004-01-01 (creation)
2024-02-28 (revision)
Frequency of update
quarterly
Responsible party
Environment Agency (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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