How do you know if a house has been flooded?

ktcoil

Hi is there anywhere that you can search a house number and postcode to see if the house has ever been flooded?

davidmcn

No, there isn't.

anto164

You can however look at the risk of floodin and the areas where flooding has been recorded. Have a browse on this link... https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2014/12/16/sharing-our-data-on-flooding/

zagubov

I knew someone whose neighbours' houses were flooded but the water didn't reach him. He sold up and moved out, on the grounds that he was still able to say honestly his house had never been flooded (as yet).

ktcoil

Yes we asked the question but when looking at the estate we are looking at, this was flooded last year, affected 50 out of 100 home, looks like the home we were looking at was not flooded, but we are next to the river Irwell,
This is the postcode of the property we are intrested in?


http://www.checkmyfloodrisk.co.uk/ m26 1hy


thanks

teneighty

Those flood risk maps are pretty accurate for river and coastal flooding but obviously cannot predict blocked drains and gullies etc. Nor do they seem to cover ground water flooding as an old house where I lived which flooded from groundwater is not in a flood risk zone.

Not all properties near a river will flood. I live overlooking a river which regularly floods but my house is on slightly raised ground so half the county would have to be under water before I started to get wet feet.

That postcode appears to be just in a Flood Zone 2, so it could potentially flood in the future but it depends exactly where the house is. Although I think the insurance companies work on post code so as far as they are concerned you are in a flood risk zone, albeit a lower risk.

ktcoil

yea looking at pictures the house we looked out was not affected but the road was closed so could caus eissues

Thanetia

Local newspapers, speak to the local postman, shopkeeper, that kind of thing ......... if you're local?

JP08

anto164 wrote: »

You can however look at the risk of floodin and the areas where flooding has been recorded. Have a browse on this link... https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2014/12/16/sharing-our-data-on-flooding/

Thanks for the link - this one will take you to the environment agency datasets (and some very useful maps)

https://data.gov.uk/data/search?theme-primary=Environment

The useful map of historic flooding limits : https://data.gov.uk/dataset/historic-flood-map1 You do need to tick the layer "on" on the left of the screen though to see the flood limits

JuicyJesus

If it's full of water, the house is flooded.


Hope this helps.

Davesnave

Looking at that estate, one doesn't need too much imagination to see which houses would be at risk and which would never flood from the river overtopping the bank.

I suppose it's just the few in the very narrow area where the ground begins to rise steeply that might be harder to assess.

Of course, flash flooding can occur on slopes too.