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What flood alerts and flood warnings mean and what you should do when they're issued.
What to do if you’re about to be flooded and during flooding: who to contact, how to stay safe, how to report a problem.
How to prepare for a flood: who to contact, how to protect your property, get insurance.
You can: check for flooding in the next 5 days get flood warnings by text,…
Before a flood happens you can make changes to your property to reduce the…
If you’re a homeowner, you can: get insurance advice from the National…
Find out if there’s flooding in your area: flood warnings, flood alerts plus river, sea and groundwater levels.
Sign up to get flood warnings for your home or business in England, Scotland or Wales, sign in to your flood warnings account, and find out how to check flood risk in Northern Ireland
After months of extreme weather, the Environment Agency have been stepping up efforts to protect the country from weather whiplash.
The dangers of flash flooding and how to stay safe.
The Environment Agency will run a large-scale training exercise in Northwich on the weekend of 11 to 12 October, testing its flood defence scheme.
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