Check for flooding

Use this service to check:

  • current flood warnings or alerts
  • river, sea, groundwater and rainfall levels
  • flood risk in the next 5 days

If you want to know if there’s surface water flooding (also known as ‘flash flooding’) in your area, contact your local council.

There are different services to check flooding in Wales, flooding in Scotland or flooding in Northern Ireland.

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Before you start

There’s a different service if you want to check the long term flood risk for an area.

Other ways to get this information

Floodline
Telephone: 0345 988 1188
Textphone: 0345 602 6340
24-hour service
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