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Flood warnings, help and advice


In this section you'll find emergency contacts, help and safety advice if you're being flooded, what's in place locally and what you can do to reduce the risk and impact of flooding.

If you are in immediate danger call 999 or see our emergency contacts information.

Current flood alerts

Report flooding

Report a flood, or a blocked road drain or gulley, or find more information on who is responsible for different types of flooding issues

Get sandbags

Are you at risk of flooding? In certain circumstances you can ask for sandbags to help.

Service disruptions and / or closures

Check how local services are being affected on the disruptions, closures and warnings page.

Flooding safety advice

Keep your family, personal property or business safe by following our flooding safety advice. Or download and print our  Icon for pdf Guide to flooding (PDF, 1.6mb) .