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Environment Agency flood-monitoring

Publisher
Cambridgeshire Insight
Updated
3 August 2026
Topic
Not set
Licence
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Summary

The Environment Agency flood-monitoring API provides developers with access to real time information covering:
•flood warnings and flood alerts
•flood areas which to which warnings or alerts apply
•forecast of flood risks over the next three days
•measurements of water levels and flows
•information on the monitoring stations providing those measurements

These APIs are provided as open data under the Open Government Licence with no requirement for registration. If you make use of this data please acknowledge this with the following attribution statement:

This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta)

For questions on the APIs please contact data.info@environment-agency.gov.uk, a forum for announcements and discussion is under consideration.

This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta)

More details available at: http://environment.data.gov.uk/flood-monitoring/doc/reference#introduction

Data links

Link Format Preview Updated
TEST Cam and Ely Ouse gauge stations JSON JSON 3/8/2026
Flood monitoring stations JSON 3/8/2026
TEST Cambridgeshire Real-Time River Level Measurements JSON 3/8/2026
Flood warnings JSON 3/8/2026
Flood areas-Cambridgeshire JSON 12/4/2020

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Harvest GUID
a657bba6-e18c-4450-a479-a61d2fe88d8c