Guidance

Personal flood plan

Checklists to help you prepare for flooding.

• From: Environment Agency
• Published: 1 July 2009
• Last updated: 15 November 2023
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  1. 15 November 2023

     Removed PDFs and added information to HTML page.

  2. 20 October 2017

     3-Point plan to flood warnings added.

  3. 16 May 2014

     Included link to online version of flood plan.

  4. 1 July 2009

     First published.

Applies to England

• Publication for Northern Ireland
• Publication for Scotland
• Publication for Wales

Documents

Personal flood plan

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Personal flood plan

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Details

If you live in a flood risk area, do what you can now to prepare for a flood. Don’t wait until it happens; you may not have time.

The personal flood plan includes a list of things you should do to prepare for a flood.

To find out if you are at risk, you can: 

• check for flooding in the next 5 days 
• sign up for flood warnings by phone, text or email 
• check your long term flood risk from rivers, the sea, surface water, reservoirs and groundwater (where data is available)