Flood Warning Areas
Flood Warning Target Area
TFW
FLOOD_WARNING_AREAS_010K
flood_warning_areas_010k
This record is for Approval for Access product AfA054 Flood Warning Areas 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. A discrete community is a recognised and named geographical community, which can be an urban area, a significant suburb of a large city or a village or a hamlet. The purpose of Flood Warnings is to alert people that flooding is expected and they should take action to protect themselves and their property. 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 properties based, usually containing a discrete urban area, suburb, city, village or hamlet and were created in various ways. In general technical 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. The triggers for Flood Warnings for groundwater flooding are based on actual observed groundwater levels. There are currently no flood risk maps for groundwater so our flood warning areas for groundwater tend to cover properties which we know have been flooded by groundwater in the past. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2021. All rights reserved.
dataset
https://environment.data.gov.uk/DefraDataDownload/?mapService=EA/FloodWarningAreas&Mode=spatial
protocol: DSP:ESRI
name: FloodWarningAreas_Download
description: Flood Warning Areas Download
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/flood-warning-areas/wms
protocol: WMS
name: FloodWarningAreas_WMS
description: Flood Warning Areas WMS
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/flood-warning-areas/wfs
protocol: WFS
name: FloodWarningAreas_WFS
description: Flood Warning Areas WFS
https://support.environment.data.gov.uk/hc/en-gb
protocol: http:
name: DSP_CUSTOMER_FORUM
description: Defra Data Services Platform Customer Forum
https://environment.data.gov.uk/arcgis/rest/services/EA/FloodWarningAreas/MapServer
protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
name: Flood_Warning_Areas_ESRI_REST_Endpoint
description: Flood Warning Areas - ESRI REST Endpoint
DSTR02948
eng
environment
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
inlandWaters
flood
flooding
safety measure
OpenData
publication
2008-06-13
-6.236
2.072
55.816
49.943
http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england
2021-08-18T11:30:00
creation
2004-01-01
revision
2021-08-18T11:30:00
quarterly
Flood Zones
Open format | Shapefile (SHP)
Not Applicable
Open Government Licence
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Environment Agency
DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk
https://support.environment.data.gov.uk/hc/en-gb
description: Defra Data Services Forum
pointOfContact
Environment Agency
metadata@environment-agency.gov.uk
pointOfContact
2021-08-18