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Nottingham Post
Nottingham Post
National
Michael Goodier

How much at risk is your home of being flooded?

More than 24,000 properties in Nottinghamshire are at medium or high risk of being flooded.

That’s according to the latest figures from an Environment Agency database.

The figures - updated last month - show that 3,846 properties in Nottinghamshire postcodes are at a high long term risk.

This means there is a one in 30 chance or higher that they will be flooded within a year. Of those, 52% (2,013) are residential properties.

A further 20,691 properties are considered to be at medium risk - meaning there is a chance of between one in 30 and one in 100 that they will experience flooding each year.

Despite numbering in the thousands, medium and high flood risk only applies to 3% of all properties in Nottinghamshire, and 3% of residential properties.

You can check whether your property is among those at long term risk using the government's online tool here.

In 2018/19, Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service attended 116 incidents of flooding. That compares to 100 the year before.

Not all flooding incidents attended by fire crews are caused by the weather.

While many will be due to storms and heavy rain, some might be caused by burst water mains and properties where people have accidentally left taps running.

In England as a whole, the figure fell from 15,670 flooding incidents to 13,360 in 2018/19.

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