Floods: Housing

(asked on 13th May 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many flooded homes there were in the last year by region.


Answered by
Emma Hardy Portrait
Emma Hardy
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 19th May 2026

The table below represents properties flooded in Environment Agency (EA) Operational Areas from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026. This information has been collated by EA Area teams and is based on information received from the public, flood partners and EA staff during national flood events. All figures are estimates and are subject to change as information is collated and updated, and records may differ from previously reported totals. Further impacts can sometimes be reported through recovery work with communities.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government may hold further detail about properties flooded during this time from Lead Local Flood Authorities.

EA Operational Area

Properties Flooded 1 April 2025– 31 March 2026

Cumbria and Lancashire

24

Devon, Cornwall & Isles of Scilly

122

East Anglia (Cambridgeshire & Bedfordshire)

2

East Anglia (Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk)

5

East Midlands

3

Greater Manchester Merseyside

1

Hertfordshire & North London

1

Kent & South London

23

Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire

North East

Solent and South Downs

17

Thames

9

West Midlands (Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire)

22

West Midlands (Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Mids)

10

Wessex

279

Yorkshire (YOR)

22

Total   

540

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