The Environment Agency website has a new flood mapping service allowing visitors to type in a postcode and find out if it’s at risk from flooding, from rivers or

The Flood Map is a multi-layered map which provides information on flooding from rivers and the sea for England and Wales. It also has information on flood defences and the areas benefiting from those flood defences.

The key for the Flood Map consists of the following layers of information:

• Flooding from rivers or sea without defences – the natural flood plain area that could be affected in the event of flooding from rivers and the sea
  - For flooding from rivers the map indicates the extent of a flood with a 1% (1 in 100) chance of happening each year
  - For flooding from the sea the map shows the extent of a flood with a 0.5% (1 in 200) chance of happening each year
• Extent of extreme flood – the extent of a flood with a 0.1% (1 in 1000) chance of happening each year
• Flood defences – flood defences such as embankments and walls, and flood storage areas (which are areas of land designed and operated to store flood water)
• Areas benefiting from flood defences – where possible we show the areas that benefit from the flood defences shown, in the event of a river flood with a 1% (1 in 100) chance of happening each year, or a flood from the sea with a 0.5% (1 in 200) chance of happening each year. If the defences were not there, these areas would flood. Note that we do not show all areas that benefit from flood defences.