North East Region
Intense rainfall between 14 and 15 June, and between 24 and 25 June, resulted in two serious floods in our North East Region. Three people lost their lives and more than 22,000 residential properties and 3,600 businesses were flooded.
The first flood was due to heavy rain falling over a period of three days. Many locations across the region received between one and two months' rain in a 48 hour period.
The rainfall which caused the second flood was less widespread than the first and mainly affected South and West Yorkshire, Hull and East Yorkshire. Although 48 hour rainfall totals were similar to the first flood, the majority of rain fell in one particularly intense 12 hour period on 25 June.
In addition to these two major floods, between 14 June and 23 July a number of localised floods occurred as storms hit a number of communities across North Yorkshire and North East England. These events helped make June the wettest on record in Yorkshire since 1882. Surface drains and sewers became overwhelmed and rivers rose to record levels overtopping their banks and flood defences.
To find out more about our North East Region, please click on the link at the bottom of the page.
