Produced by SEPA to meet duties under the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009, these maps show flood risk from rivers. The maps include flood extent, depth, and velocity for high (10-year), medium (200-year), and low (1000-year and 200-year plus climate change) probability events. The climate change scenario uses UKCP09 high emissions predictions for the 2080s.
Use Cases
- Assess flood risk for property development based on flood extent and depth maps.
- Model potential flood damage and emergency response based on flood velocity data.
- Analyze long-term climate change impacts on flood hazards based on the 2080s high emissions scenario.
- Inform land-use planning and policy decisions based on flood probabilities aligned with Scottish Planning Policy.
Strengths
- Maps are produced under a statutory duty, suggesting an official and authoritative source.
- Covers multiple flood probability scenarios, including a specific climate change projection for the 2080s.
- Includes three key hazard parameters: flood extent, depth, and velocity where appropriate.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data, being specific to Scotland.
Provenance
- Source
- Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot / SEPA (Scottish Environment Protection Agency)
- Collection Method
- Produced to meet statutory duties, likely involving hydrological modeling.
- Time Range
- Climate change scenario based on UKCP09 predictions for the 2080s.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:16.517886; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Scotland