Properties better protected from flooding, England
Not official statistics
Homes and businesses in England better protected from flooding and coastal erosion by the government's investment each year since 2021–22, from the Environment Agency's yearly reports.
Properties better protected
34,355
2025/26
Verified against source, 1 November 2026, 21:03 UTCSource: Environment Agency. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
5 periods, newest first
| Period | Properties better protected |
|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 34,355 |
| 2024/25 | 27,543 |
| 2023/24 | 28,920 |
| 2022/23 | 26,440 |
| 2021/22 | 32,920 |
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; 5 of 5 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Environment Agency; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-01T21:03:15Z; 6 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 6 of 6 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 5 of 5 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 5 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 5 of 5 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 areas add up to the total | 5 of 5 cases of report, its regions or areas sum to its total, 1 of them by the publisher's known difference: 2025/26 (-4) |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/flood-and-coastal-risk-management-national-report – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Properties whose risk of flooding or coastal erosion fell because of schemes completed in the year, as each report's table of investment gives them in all. The 2021–22 and 2022–23 reports give them by region and later reports by Environment Agency area; in 2025–26 the areas add up to 34,351, four fewer than the report's total of 34,355.
- From the Environment Agency's corporate report, not official statistics.