Independent flood recovery commentary for English homeowners. Urgent alerts when conditions change. Monthly analysis of flood risk, insurance, drainage and your legal rights.
Flood Re marked ten years in operation with its biggest reform package yet — including a new certificate for flood resilience. Here's what it means.
A new certificate modelled on the Energy Performance Certificate, a premium cut for lower-value homes, and an expanded Build Back Better scheme — all announced as Flood Re marks its tenth anniversary. What's changing, and why documented flood history and resilience now matter more than ever.
Read the full update →After the driest summer in memory, the coming autumn's first storms will meet unusually dry, compacted ground. Two new pieces on why that raises flash flood risk — and what to do about it while the sun is still shining.
Britain has broken heat records this summer, with drought bulletins across every English region. So why is a flood recovery consultancy watching the forecast? Because drought is how many of Britain's worst flash floods begin.
Read article → Blog 11 · PreparationA record-breaking summer has left English soils drier than average in every region. Here is the RISE Three-R checklist — a sequence of unglamorous, mostly free actions to take while the weather is still kind.
Read article →When the situation calls for more than a county explainer — RISE's deeper investigative writing on the structural problems shaping flood risk in England.
The most common flood risk in England is the one that never leads the news. What the regulator's own peer body found about surface water management — the staffing, the funding, the Section 19 problem, the twelve-year postponement of the law that was supposed to fix it — and what it means for homeowners who have just flooded.
Read the long read →A six-part deep dive into UK flood risk — from the national picture, through each of the four counties RISE serves, to what the first 72 hours after a flood demand of you.
NaFRA2 now identifies 6.3 million English properties at risk. 4.6 million are exposed to surface water flooding alone — three times the river and sea risk. What it means for homeowners.
Read article → Blog 02 · BuckinghamshireRiver, surface water and groundwater risk across the county — and what one Section 19 investigation revealed about an entire village's flood exposure.
Read article → Blog 03 · OxfordshireStorm Henk, September 2024 (the wettest month since 1836), and a county whose council openly warns it is moving from sporadic floods to continuous flooding.
Read article → Blog 04 · NorthamptonshireA county that drains into three separate river systems. The Nene Valley, the convective storm risk, and the Section 19 investigations being triggered with growing frequency.
Read article → Blog 05 · BedfordshireBedford's recurring fluvial risk, urban flash flooding in Luton, and the responsibility maze homeowners encounter when councils and water companies pass them between each other.
Read article → Blog 06 · RecoveryThree parties arrive at your door — the insurer, the loss adjuster, the contractor. None of them work for you. What to do instead, and why those first three days set the cost of everything that follows.
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