Flood warnings issued, England
Not official statistics
Severe flood warnings, flood warnings and flood alerts the Environment Agency issued in England each year since 2012–13, from its yearly reports' comparison of the years.
Flood warnings
1,004
2025/26 · 3 severe
Verified against source, 1 November 2026, 21:03 UTC- Severe flood warnings
- Flood warnings
- Flood alerts
Source: Environment Agency. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
14 rows
| Category | Severe flood warnings | Flood warnings | Flood alerts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012/13 | 15 | 2,093 | 4,527 |
| 2013/14 | 147 | 1,897 | 3,832 |
| 2014/15 | 0 | 343 | 2,154 |
| 2015/16 | 103 | 1,285 | 3,432 |
| 2016/17 | 25 | 496 | 2,037 |
| 2017/18 | 0 | 421 | 2,263 |
| 2018/19 | 0 | 366 | 1,844 |
| 2019/20 | 27 | 2,455 | 4,834 |
| 2020/21 | 10 | 1,176 | 2,843 |
| 2021/22 | 14 | 653 | 2,129 |
| 2022/23 | 0 | 547 | 2,473 |
| 2023/24 | 7 | 2,613 | 5,126 |
| 2024/25 | 4 | 1,864 | 3,989 |
| 2025/26 | 3 | 1,004 | 3,441 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Environment Agency
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/flood-and-coastal-risk-management-national-report
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 1 November 2026, 21:03 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/publications/flood-and-coastal-risk-management-national-reportSHA-256 1c6dae36ee1b4345a768bc97482e91069aa7b265545db55199a4915ad7f3413b · 36,393 bytes
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/publications/flood-and-coastal-risk-management-national-report/flood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-management-report-1-april-2021-to-31-march-2022SHA-256 451746877afd354005e672063468fc548a1cc111031e8e477e2b36f42143daa5 · 144,129 bytes
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/publications/flood-and-coastal-risk-management-national-report/flood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-management-report-1-april-2022-to-31-march-2023SHA-256 9ed40a2821e34fa403adc1e54cd5c2f22dffd94c1dc03630033af23758f94b28 · 161,056 bytes
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/publications/flood-and-coastal-risk-management-national-report/flood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-management-report-1-april-2023-to-31-march-2024SHA-256 2e89d0a687881e81a5b9a243db691deab1b802d905617a09aa5971e4914b489a · 163,678 bytes
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/publications/flood-and-coastal-risk-management-national-report/flood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-management-report-1-april-2024-to-31-march-2025SHA-256 466a567b6f3b0fe570df7f1fc1af396b6ac64d2cc6d2f470b28645a7de5a29c5 · 180,506 bytes
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/publications/flood-and-coastal-risk-management-national-report/flood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-management-report-1-april-2025-to-31-march-2026SHA-256 74f99f37e7a65d34b055b9d2f459e9b71d20c135fe7a9c6c54063014274d59e4 · 209,525 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 1 November 2026, 21:03 UTC Run at 1 November 2026, 21:03 UTC; 42 of 42 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Environment Agency; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-01T21:03:11Z; 6 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 6 of 6 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 42 of 42 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 42 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 42 of 42 figures match exactly after downloading 6 source file(s) again (6 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2026-03-31 ended 215 days before retrieval (limit 550), from the stored table |
| Not run | Second official route | No independent second route to these figures is published; the live re-fetch is the check. |
| Pass | The EA's file of warnings agrees | 42 of 42 cases of year and type, the alerts, warnings and severe warnings in the file of every warning issued (its records to 2026-06-25, types read whatever their case, updates left out), https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=766cb094-b392-4bd6-a02e-f60e143f3213&fileName=Historic_Flood_Warnings.zip, count to the record's, 3 of them by the publisher's known difference: 2019/20 flood warnings (+5), 2025/26 flood warnings (-2), 2025/26 flood alerts (-2) |
| Pass | The reports agree where they repeat a year | 66 of 66 cases of year, type and later report, the count equals the first report's that gives the year |
| Pass | Each report's months add up to its year | 15 of 15 cases of report and type, the report's months sum to its own year's row |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/flood-and-coastal-risk-management-national-report – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- A flood alert means flooding is possible, a flood warning that it is expected and immediate action is needed, and a severe flood warning that there is a danger to life. Each year runs from April to March.
- From 2018–19 the figures are the latest report's; for 2012–13 to 2017–18 the 2021–22 report's, the only one that gives them. The Environment Agency's file of every warning issued counts 2,460 flood warnings in 2019–20 where every report gives 2,455, and 3,439 alerts and 1,002 warnings in 2025–26 where the report gives 3,441 and 1,004.
- From the Environment Agency's corporate report, not official statistics.