RoFMS: UK Flood Risk from Multiple Sources, National Scale

UK national-scale GIS data assessing the combined risk of flooding from rivers, the sea, and surface water. The dataset groups risk into 4 bands and is produced by the Environment Agency using existing flood risk products. A related document details the creation, application, and limitations of this data.

Use Cases

• Strategic land-use planning based on indicative multi-source flood risk bands.
• Regional environmental risk assessment based on combined flooding from rivers, sea, and surface water.
• Identifying areas for further detailed flood studies based on the national-scale suitability indication.

Strengths

• National-scale coverage of the UK.
• Integrates risk from three flood sources: rivers, sea, and surface water.
• Risk is categorized into 4 distinct bands for analysis.

Limitations

• The record has been retired, indicating it may be superseded.
• Not suitable for property-level assessment, as explicitly stated.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency, with spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and Cranfield University.

Collection Method

Created by combining existing Risk of Flooding from Rivers and the Sea (RoFRS) and Risk of Flooding from Surface Water (RoFSW) products.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-06 07:16:53.871501; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom