Leicester City - Flooding Engagement

We're here to help!

This page brings together key resources to help you:

  • recover from flooding
  • prepare for flooding
  • become resilient to flooding

Please use the Personalised Flooding Guide (click the link) to find all the information relevant to your specific needs. It contains the best links, guidance, and tools to support you, your family, and your community. All information in the guide is also available in the sections 'Recover/protect yourself from flooding' and 'Other helpful information'.

Why we've created this page

Climate change is worsening flooding. This includes the January 2025 floods in Leicester, which were caused by intense rainfall and rapid snowmelt on saturated and frozen ground, with most rivers exceeding the record high levels set only the previous January!

It is now more essential than ever that we work closely with communities, to listen to your needs and experiences. Together we can better protect and support those at risk.

A winter scene, the foreground through to the background is dominated by light brown and calm floodwater reflecting the overcast but bright sky above. The horizon is full of leafless trees and bushes that surround the flooded meadows, as well as several electricity pylons. A woman in a yellow-green high-visibility jacket and a warm hat, reaches upwards with her right arm, about 1 foot over her head, highlighting the wrack marks in the hedgerow next to her, where debris carried by the high water of the floods has caught in the branches. The woman is stood on a tarmac flat footpath that runs alongside a wide watercourse. A large willow tree can be seen in the background, it's branches full of debris washed down by the floods. Behind the tree is the silhouette of a giant looming brick factory tower.
Aylestone Meadows in flood
The height water levels reached in Belgrave during the flooding in January 2025.

Tip - double tap the 'Ctrl' key while hovering over any image with the cursor/mouse to be able to zoom in on it.

Get involved

  • Use the Discussion tool below to engage with others in the community.
  • Provide us with feedback by taking the Survey. We'll develop the page in response to this, via quarterly updates. Please check back every few months to see these.
  • Subscribe to receive an email notification with any vitally important updates.
  • If you would like to ask the Environment Agency any questions or to report problems, email - emdenquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk.
  • To report urgent problems call the incident line on 0800 80 70 60. This page isn't monitored for such issues. Further contacts/info can be found here (click 'Read Bio' under each contact to see more details).

Use the headings below to switch between the interactive tools:

We're here to help!

This page brings together key resources to help you:

  • recover from flooding
  • prepare for flooding
  • become resilient to flooding

Please use the Personalised Flooding Guide (click the link) to find all the information relevant to your specific needs. It contains the best links, guidance, and tools to support you, your family, and your community. All information in the guide is also available in the sections 'Recover/protect yourself from flooding' and 'Other helpful information'.

Why we've created this page

Climate change is worsening flooding. This includes the January 2025 floods in Leicester, which were caused by intense rainfall and rapid snowmelt on saturated and frozen ground, with most rivers exceeding the record high levels set only the previous January!

It is now more essential than ever that we work closely with communities, to listen to your needs and experiences. Together we can better protect and support those at risk.

A winter scene, the foreground through to the background is dominated by light brown and calm floodwater reflecting the overcast but bright sky above. The horizon is full of leafless trees and bushes that surround the flooded meadows, as well as several electricity pylons. A woman in a yellow-green high-visibility jacket and a warm hat, reaches upwards with her right arm, about 1 foot over her head, highlighting the wrack marks in the hedgerow next to her, where debris carried by the high water of the floods has caught in the branches. The woman is stood on a tarmac flat footpath that runs alongside a wide watercourse. A large willow tree can be seen in the background, it's branches full of debris washed down by the floods. Behind the tree is the silhouette of a giant looming brick factory tower.
Aylestone Meadows in flood
The height water levels reached in Belgrave during the flooding in January 2025.

Tip - double tap the 'Ctrl' key while hovering over any image with the cursor/mouse to be able to zoom in on it.

Get involved

  • Use the Discussion tool below to engage with others in the community.
  • Provide us with feedback by taking the Survey. We'll develop the page in response to this, via quarterly updates. Please check back every few months to see these.
  • Subscribe to receive an email notification with any vitally important updates.
  • If you would like to ask the Environment Agency any questions or to report problems, email - emdenquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk.
  • To report urgent problems call the incident line on 0800 80 70 60. This page isn't monitored for such issues. Further contacts/info can be found here (click 'Read Bio' under each contact to see more details).

Use the headings below to switch between the interactive tools:

Page last updated: 30 Apr 2026, 01:54 PM