Guidance

Reports: guidance for professional users of the get flood warnings service

Updated 17 March 2026

Applies to England

1. Overview

You should read this guide if you have a professional (organisation) login for the Get flood warnings service. You are likely to be an administrator for your organisation’s Get flood warnings account.

Administrators for an organisation can add locations of interest and then link contacts to these. This allows organisations to tailor which flood alerts and flood warnings each of their contacts receive.

Administrators for an organisation can also login to view reports for live or historical flood alerts and flood warnings.

2. Reports

There are several reports available to users with a professional (organisation) login for the Get flood warnings service. These include:

• live flood warnings
• warnings removed in the last 24 hours
• historical warnings
• summary of flood messages sent to your locations

The locations and contacts dashboards each have lists with a filter function. This allows you to produce reports for your organisation’s locations and contacts. See the add contacts and add locations guides for more details.

3. Live flood warnings report

To view a report for live flood warnings, you should select the ‘Reports’ tab then select ‘Live flood warnings’. Alternatively, from the ‘Live flood warnings’ landing page select Warnings and alerts for your organisation’s locations today’. Either of these options will direct you to a list of all flood alerts and flood warnings currently live in locations relevant to your organisation.

Note: Some flood alerts or flood warnings may be listed here multiple times. This happens if your organisation has:

• multiple locations covered by the same flood alert or flood warning area
• has boundary type locations which overlap

You can filter the list using the ‘Open filter’ button. A filter menu will appear on the left-hand side. You can filter the list by:

• location name
• location type
• importance to your organisation

You can sort and change the order of the list by selecting the headings of the table.

Selecting the name of a location will open a tab showing the ‘Live’ warnings in force and a timeline tab. From the ‘Live’ tab, selecting a link will open a new tab to our Check for flooding service for the flood warning area. From here you can also follow links to see nearby river, sea, groundwater and rainfall levels.

You can use the ‘Download’ button to print the current list and selected filters to a CSV, XLS, XLSX or PDF document.

Image 1: Report for live flood warnings showing filter options and download button. Image courtesy of the Environment Agency.

4. Warnings removed in last 24 hours

From the ‘Reports’ tab, you can select the report type ‘Warnings removed in last 24 hours’. This provides a list of all flood alerts and flood warnings that have been removed from your organisation’s locations in the last 24 hours. Alternatively, from the ‘Live flood warnings’ landing page select the link ‘Warning removed’ which will direct you to the same page. 

You can filter the list by selecting the ‘Open filter’ button. A filter menu will appear on the left-hand side. You can filter the list by: 

• location name 
• location type  
• importance to your organisation  

You can sort and change the order of the list by selecting each heading in the table. 

Selecting the name of a location will open a tab showing the live warnings in force and a timeline tab. From the ‘Live’ tab, selecting a link will open a new tab to our Check for flooding service for the flood warning area. From here you can also follow links to see nearby river, sea, groundwater and rainfall levels. 

You can use the ‘Download’ button to print the current list and selected filters to a CSV, XLS, XLSX or PDF document.

Image 2: Report for flood warnings removed in last 24 hours showing filter options and download button. Image courtesy of the Environment Agency.

5. Historical warnings

From the ‘Reports’ tab, you can select the report type ‘Historical warnings’. This provides a list of all flood alerts and flood warnings that have been issued to your organisation’s locations.

You can filter the list by selecting the ‘Open filter’ button. A filter menu will appear on the left-hand side. You can filter the list by:

• date range
• location name
• location type
• importance to your organisation

You can sort and change the order of the list by selecting each heading in the table.

Selecting the name of a location will open a tab showing the live warnings in force and a timeline tab. From the ‘Live’ tab, selecting a link will open a new tab to our Check for flooding service for the flood warning area. From here you can also follow links to see nearby river, sea, groundwater and rainfall levels.

You can use the ‘Download’ button to print the current list and selected filters to a CSV, XLS, XLSX or PDF document.

Image 3: Report for flood warning history showing filter options and download button. Image courtesy of the Environment Agency.

6. Summary of messages sent to your locations

From the ‘Reports’ tab, you can select the report option ‘Summary of flood messages sent to your locations’. There are 2 summaries available:

• locations that get flood messages
• locations that will not get flood messages

6.1 Locations that get flood messages

This is a summary of how many locations get each of the different types of
flood messages. Locations can receive:

• all message types
• flood warnings and severe flood warnings only
• flood alerts only

Note: Flood warnings are not available at all locations, and so there may be locations which only receive flood alerts.

This table also provides a count of each message type over the last 2 years.

6.2 Locations that will not get flood messages

This table summarises how many locations will not receive any flood messages. These fall into 2 categories:

• none available – these are locations that are not at flood risk or locations where a flood alert or flood warning service is not available
• all message types (turned off) – where contacts linked to these locations have selected not to receive any message types, or there are no contacts linked to these locations

7. Find out more

You can also watch this YouTube tutorial to find out how to use the report section to:

• access reports
• view live and historical warnings
• sort data
• review dashboard summaries