Planning for the risk of widespread flooding

Research addressing the need for realistic planning scenarios that account for the risk of widespread flooding across England and Wales

From:
Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research and Development Programme and Environment Agency
Published
24 February 2021
Last updated
22 March 2024 — See all updates
Category:
Managing flood incidents
Topics:
Big data, Communicating risk, Decision making with uncertainty, Flood costs, Flood forecasting, Flood risk assessment, Incident management, Monitoring and detection, Resilience planning, Strategy and planning
Project status:
Completed
Project code:
SC140002
Date of completion:
20 September 2017

Documents

Planning for the risk of widespread flooding - summary (179KB) PDF

Planning for the risk of widespread flooding - technical report (3.2MB) PDF

Planning for the risk of widespread flooding - user guide (6.6MB) PDF

Multivariate Event Modeller (MEM) tool

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Details

This project has developed methods and guidance to address the need for realistic planning scenarios that account for the risk of widespread flooding across England and Wales, flooding from multiple sources (river, surface water and sea) and the potential impacts.

The outputs of the project have:

  • highlighted the scale of the risk of flooding to England and Wales
  • changed the representation of flood risks for the public facing National Risk Register (NRR) and the Cabinet Office’s National Risk Assessment (NRA)
  • helped inform the National Flood Resilience Review (NFRR) and are being taken forward via that route. They will allow central government, emergency planners and responders to review their planning assumptions, emergency response and mutual aid capabilities, to increase the England and Wales preparedness for widespread flooding.

The Multivariate Event Modeller (MEM) tool was updated and openly published in 2024. To contribute to developing the code, please use the GitHub repository

Updates to this page

Published 24 February 2021
Last updated 22 March 2024 + show all updates

  1. Multivariate Event Modeller software now available to download.

  2. First published.

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