Risk Levels Under Review: Flood Model Data for Wales

Wales locations where flood risk model data is under review and may change within six months. The data is part of the Flood Risk Assessment Wales (FRAW) map and is provided by the Government Digital Service under an OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Identify areas of potential flood risk model update based on the review status.
• Prioritize field validation or data collection efforts for locations flagged as under review.
• Assess temporal stability of flood risk maps by tracking areas with pending changes.
• Support planning decisions with awareness of provisional flood risk data.

Strengths

• Data is integrated into the official Flood Risk Assessment Wales (FRAW) map.
• Explicitly flags data that is liable to change within a defined 6-month window.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely derived from environmental modeling and assessment processes.

Time Range

Review status applies to a 6-month forward-looking window.

Freshness

Data is described as under review and potentially liable to change within the next 6 months.

Geography

Wales