Leicester City - Flooding Engagement

We're here to help!

This page brings together key resources to help you recover from, prepare for, and become more resilient to flooding in Leicester.

Please use the Personalised Flooding Guide 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 the information in the guide is also readily available, to browse freely, under the sections labelled '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.
  • After you've explored the page, provide us with feedback by taking the Survey. We'll develop the page in response to this, via frequent updates and larger quarterly updates. Please check back on the page every few months to see these.
  • Subscribe to receive an email notification with any vitally important updates. For example, if any potential future face-face events have to be rescheduled.
  • If you would like to ask the Environment Agency any questions, request any data about Leicester, or to report problems such as blockages etc. then email - emdenquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk. To report more urgent problems please call the incident line on 0800 80 70 60. This page isn't monitored for such issues. Further contacts and 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, prepare for, and become more resilient to flooding in Leicester.

Please use the Personalised Flooding Guide 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 the information in the guide is also readily available, to browse freely, under the sections labelled '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.
  • After you've explored the page, provide us with feedback by taking the Survey. We'll develop the page in response to this, via frequent updates and larger quarterly updates. Please check back on the page every few months to see these.
  • Subscribe to receive an email notification with any vitally important updates. For example, if any potential future face-face events have to be rescheduled.
  • If you would like to ask the Environment Agency any questions, request any data about Leicester, or to report problems such as blockages etc. then email - emdenquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk. To report more urgent problems please call the incident line on 0800 80 70 60. This page isn't monitored for such issues. Further contacts and 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:

  • Are wetter winters and frequent flooding here to stay?

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    The following is a relevant article published by the BBC that does a good job of breaking down the relationship between climate change and future flood risk:

    UK rain: Are wetter winters and frequent flooding here to stay? - BBC News

  • The first Quarterly update is here! - Personalised flooding guide

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    Albeit slightly late, the first quarterly update has landed, bringing with it the brand new 'Personalised Flooding Guide'!


    Personalised Flooding Guide:

    This new tool uses your responses to targeted questions to create a guide tailored to your specific circumstances/needs, with links to the best available information.

    Our hope is that this will make it far easier for you to find the information you're looking for, saving you significant extra time and stress, while further improving everyone's understanding of flooding matters.

    We have included a number of starting scenarios for the guide that we believe are the most important in terms of peoples need's. However, we are hoping to expand the number of scenarios available in subsequent Quarterly updates.

    Any feedback on how to improve the guide is welcome.


    Weather:

    The weather and ground conditions, so far this winter, have clearly been far more favourable than recent years. Long may this continue!

    Therefore, we have no updates for you on this front, but should things change we will try and use this News feed to keep you abreast of any helpful information that emerges post flood event (Reminder - this page does not provide information, warnings etc. on forecast/future or live flooding events).


    News feed:

    This new feature has just been added to the page!

    It will be used to showcase updates to the page (such as this one) and any events, works, information or plans etc., we believe are worth sharing.

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