National assessment of flood and coastal erosion risk in England 2024

Publication Year

2026

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Comprises an assessment of the current and future flood and erosion risk across England. Covers: context of flooding and coastal erosion risk in a changing climate; flood and coastal erosion risk information; updated assessment of flood and coastal erosion risk in England; new national assessment of flood risk; rivers and sea: how assessment of flood risk from rivers and the sea is changing; surface water: how assessment of flood risk from surface water is changing; flood risk from multiple sources; new national coastal erosion risk map; coastal erosion: how assessment of coastal erosion risk is changing; how the new national flood and coastal erosion risk information will be made available; next steps involving improving understanding of risk; and who the new risk information will be used to inform future investments.

Document History

Last updated: 5 August 2026 - Added new section 1.8 'Entitled use of our national flood risk datasets'. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-assessment-of-flood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-in-england-2024/national-assessment-of-flood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-in-england-2024 and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: research and analysis. First published: 17 December 2024.

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