Licences

FloodRadar is built from open data published by the organisations below, each under the licence named beside it. FloodRadar is independent — not endorsed by or affiliated with the Environment Agency, SEPA, Natural Resources Wales or any government body.

• Environment Agency. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta). Open Government Licence v3.0; the landfill and pollution-incident registers under the Environment Agency's Conditional Licence. The discharge register is for internal use only under that licence, with a one-year term; its records are not published. Coastal flood boundary data: copyright Associated British Ports 2010–2014.
• Flood Forecasting Centre. Flood Forecasting Centre (Environment Agency and Met Office): Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Scottish Environment Protection Agency. Contains SEPA data © Scottish Environment Protection Agency and database right 2026. Open Government Licence v3.0; Floodline warnings used with permission confirmed by FloodRadar on 12 September 2026. SEPA's attribution statements for its Flood Maps v3.0: rivers and the sea · surface water.
• Natural Resources Wales. Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and database right. All rights reserved. Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Met Office. © Crown copyright 2026, Met Office. Open Government Licence v3.0; weather warnings under the Met Office Open Licence (version 1), powered by Met Office data; Weather DataHub data under its terms and conditions; radar pictures recoloured by FloodRadar shared under CC BY-SA 4.0; MIDAS Open rain records through the NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis.
• Ordnance Survey. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Royal Mail, Office for National Statistics and GeoPlace. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains GeoPlace data © Local Government Information House Limited copyright and database right 2026. Office for National Statistics data under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. National River Flow Archive, COSMOS-UK and UK Reservoir Inventory data © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology; the Reservoir Inventory under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Radon Potential classification UK Health Security Agency © Crown copyright 2026.
• Mining Remediation Authority. Contains Mining Remediation Authority information © Mining Remediation Authority 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Other public bodies. planning.data.gov.uk, the DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database, the HS2 route dataset, Defra and the Welsh Government: contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Scottish Government and partners (LiDAR). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scottish Land LiDAR Programme: Crown copyright Scottish Government © Crown copyright and database right (2025). Scottish Coastal LiDAR Survey: Crown copyright Scottish Government © Crown copyright and database right (2026). LiDAR for Orkney Islands Council 2023: Crown copyright Orkney Islands Council © Crown copyright and database right (2023). LiDAR for Scotland: Phase 1, Crown copyright Scottish Government, SEPA and Scottish Water (2012); Phase 2, Copyright Scottish Government and SEPA (2014); Phase 3, Crown copyright Scottish Government, SEPA and Fugro (2020); Phase 4, Crown copyright Scottish Government and Fugro (2020); Phase 5, Crown copyright Scottish Government and Fugro (2021); Phase 6, Crown copyright Scottish Government and Fugro (2022). LiDAR for Outer Hebrides 2019: © SEPA (2019). LiDAR for Luing: Crown copyright Scottish Government, Luing History Group and Fugro (2021).
• Water companies. Storm overflow data © the water companies: Anglian Water, Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water, Hafren Dyfrdwy, Northumbrian Water, Scottish Water, Severn Trent Water, South West Water, Southern Water, Thames Water Utilities Limited, United Utilities, Wessex Water and Yorkshire Water; annual compilations by The Rivers Trust.
• British Hydrological Society. Chronology of British Hydrological Events, British Hydrological Society (www.cbhe.hydrology.org.uk), used and published with the Society's permission.
• JBA Trust. D. Archer and H. Fowler, A historical flash flood chronology for Britain, JBA Trust (www.jbatrust.org), used and published with the Trust's permission.
• Top of the Poops. Earlier discharge records from Top of the Poops, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
• OpenStreetMap. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).
• Esri. Map tiles © Esri: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics.
• Copernicus. Contains modified Copernicus Emergency Management Service information 2026. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains. Copernicus DEM GLO-90 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.
• ECMWF. Based on data and products of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), source www.ecmwf.int, licensed under CC BY 4.0; processed by FloodRadar, and ECMWF accepts no liability for this use.
• NOAA. Data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US public domain). No endorsement by NOAA is implied.
• Open-Meteo. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0).
• GDACS. Cyclone bulletins: GDACS, © European Union, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
• International Research Institute for Climate and Society. ENSO Forecast Data © 2002–2026 by International Research Institute for Climate and Society is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
• Climate Reanalyzer. ClimateReanalyzer.org, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine (CC BY 4.0).
• World Meteorological Organization. Outlook statements © WMO, quoted with attribution.
• Natural Earth. Made with Natural Earth (public domain).
• Solar System Scope. Earth image: Solar System Scope (CC BY 4.0), based on NASA imagery.
• Wikipedia. Text from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; photographs from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own free licence.
• North Sea Transition Authority. Contains information provided by the North Sea Transition Authority and/or other third parties, under the NSTA User Agreement.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. FloodRadar summarises public data. It is not an official service and never a substitute for the official flood warnings.