Is your home at risk of flooding?

A question about : Is your home at risk of flooding?

The BBC website news for the 15th June 2007:

Flood warnings have been issued by the Environment Agency as bad weather sweeps across much of England.

Warnings have been issued for Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire.

I know the details about my area, do you know if your home is at risk of flooding?

It's very easy to check. The Environment Agency website www.environment-agency.gov.uk will show if your home is at risk.

This link takes you to the relevant page on their website, all you do is enter your post code and it will bring up a map of your home and surrounding area.

If your home is at risk of flooding, you can contact the Environment Agency on 0845 988 1188 and register your home address and your contact telephone number................then they will contact you with a flood alert if your property is at imminent risk of flooding. You can ask for the alert call to be at a certain time of the time..........or accept a call at any time of the day or night.

Best answers:

• This map does not tak into account the likelihood of flooding due to rain water etc.
  A friend of ours has just been flooded for the 2nd time in 6 years. She lives well away from a river and thus well away from the flood area on the map.
• We live very close to a river which tends to flood, and from time to time over many years now some insurance companies have stated that we are in a high flood risk area, despite the fact that we are so much higher than the river that there is not a cat in you-know-what's chance of us flooding. We have even been point blank refused insurance due to our "risk of flooding".
  However I recently went on to the site where you can enter your postcode and check whether you are at risk ,and realised that - for us - it was not detailed enough to state one way or the other.
  So I contacted the Environment Agency, who clarified from my postcode and house number that we are in no danger whatsoever of flooding from the river. I now have a letter to prove this fact should insurance companies still state we are in danger of flood.
• Flood map for Scotland can be found here https://www.multimap.com/clients/places.cgi?client=sepa just enter your postcode details in the Address Search box on the left hand menu.
• Hugo SP - you can be put on flood alert if you have flooded in the past. I called to register for contact if there was a chance of flooding, and they initially said 'no' as I am not in danger of flooding from the river, but when I explained that I have had problems with flooding from rain water before they agreed to add me to the list!
• As flooding is in the news, I've updated/amended my first post and will make this thread sticky again.
• My mum's house in Cornwall flooded all the time. this is because of rain water running down a hill from a farm that was behind us. (often a while after the rain stopped!) she got flooded 3 or 4 times, not major but enough to cause a nuisance - luckily the back room was tiled!! But we found a system called Homesight that connected to our pc. Its a security system but they had water sensors that you can stick anywhere so we put the probe just beneath the lip of the outside step, the actual main bit stayed inside
  We then bought text message bundles and set up a rule that anytime it was immersed in water it would text 'water detected' to my mum's phone. then it was a rush home to grab the sand bags and move stuff out the way. It has worked a treat every time and because it was beneath the lip of the small step she didn't get any false rain readings and saved up some very messy cleaning up a few times!!!
  I bought online at www.myhome247.co.uk. Water sensor cost Ј25 system with camera cost me Ј50 a while back, but looking at their website there seems to be a new system that is Ј200 but it's different to the one i had, accessories are all the same though and water sensor still available. Might be useful for someone?
• If you are on the East coast, check the Environment Agency website (see post #1) to see if your area is affected by the following warning level(s):
  Flood Watch - Flooding of low lying land and roads is expected. Be aware, be prepared, watch out!
  Flood Warning - Flooding of homes and businesses is expected. Act now!
  Severe Flood Warning - Severe flooding is expected. There is extreme danger to life and property. Act now!
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