Flooding and your property

This page gives advice on how to prepare you property for flooding and to find out if any flooding is forecast.

Assessing the risk of your property/ business flooding

Your property/ business could be at risk from flooding. The flooding could be from different sources:

Check if your property is at risk from flooding on the:

If your property is as risk, you could create your own flood plan, for more information visit:

Call Floodline on 08459 881188
Check the Met Office - Weather warnings website for current weather warnings.
Check the GOV.UK - Flood warning for England website for current flood warnings.
Listen to local radio and/or watch local TV stations for weather and flooding updates: BBC Hereford & Worcester 104fm & 94.7fm.

Check out the National Flood Forum website for information on Flood Protection and Resilience and preparing for flooding; also visit Facebook - The National Flood Forum.
Visit the GOV.UK - Find out if you're at risk of flooding in England website.
Visit the Know your Flood Risk website for live flood updates app and to buy a flood report for your property
Download Know your Flood Risk - Homeowners guide to flood resilience.
See information on how to obtain sandbags.
For historic buildings see the Historic England website for advice on Flood Protection and Resilience and preparing for flooding of historic buildings.
The BRE have created a Flood resilient home which has been adapted to the flood resistant up to 2 feet, visit the BRE website for useful tips for your property; download BRE - Six Steps to Property Level Flood Resilience - Guidance for property owners.
For specialist flooding insurance for properties at risk or have previously flooded, FloodRe can help, visit the FloodRe website.

If your community is frequently flooded it might be worth setting up a local flood group.

The National Flood Forum lists the benefits of setting up a local flood group which can:

Address concerns over malfunctioning assets/and other issues
Be constantly in touch with what is intended for their community
Know procedures that are already in place regards routine maintenance
Have a voice as to the future flood risk of their community through consultation
Instigate ‘flood watchers’
Create awareness of flood risk to the wider community
Prepare to reduce the impact on the community should a flood event occur.

Find out how to form a flood group on the National Flood Forum website.

Please contact the Flood Risk Management Team if you would like to add your flood group to this page.