Identification

Title

Risk of Flooding from Surface Water - Key Summary Information

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

These documents provide analysis of the numbers of people and property within areas at risk of flooding from surface water. There are 3 spreadsheets available which provide the following summary information: • Number of properties in areas at risk from flooding from surface water • Number of people in areas at risk from flooding from surface water • Number of ground floor properties in areas at risk from flooding from surface water They include a breakdown of numbers and areas of land at risk of flooding from surface water within England, and the corresponding ONS Regions, River Basin Districts, Regional Flood and Coastal Committees, Environment Agency Areas, Lead Local Flood Authorities, Local Authorities and MP Constituencies. The raw values are presented and should be rounded to an appropriate level of precision for the geographical area you choose to use the data for. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=b15bdd08-6e4b-4f12-9429-6c07f50e2698&fileName=RoFSW_KeySummaryInfo.zip

protocol: http

name: RoFSW_KeySummaryInfo.zip

description: RoFSW_KeySummaryInfo.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

Unique resource identifier

code

130bc2d8-2581-4b90-8494-b7379fe0b6c5_resource

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

inlandWaters

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Flood Risk Management

surface waters

environment

inlandWaters

Keyword set

keyword value

Natural risk zones

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

risk

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.236

East bounding longitude

2.072

North bounding latitude

55.816

South bounding latitude

49.943

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

2099-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2024-12-05

date type

publication

effective date

2025-01-28

date type

revision

effective date

2025-03-25

Frequency of update

quarterly

Quality and validity

Lineage

The latest versions of the Risk of Flooding from Surface Water (RoFSW) products and the National Receptors Dataset (NRD)* are used to create this set of summary information. Further explanations about the information presented in the spreadsheets such as flood likelihood categories, property types and how numbers are calculated are presented in the first tab of each spreadsheet. *The NRD is developed by the Environment Agency, however it is based on Ordnance Survey data (AddressBase Premium and MasterMap Topography Layer) and we do not have permission to release this as Open Data.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | MS Excel (XLSX)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Constraint set

Use constraints

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk

web address

https://environment.data.gov.uk/support

description: Defra Data Services Forum

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2025-03-25

Metadata language