England Has 1.2 Million Buildings at Risk of Flooding With No Defenses

England Has 1.2 Million Buildings at Risk of Flooding With No Defenses

A new study has found that 1.2 million buildings at risk of flooding in England currently aren’t included in any of the country’s flood defenses.

England has 1.2 million buildings at risk of flooding

The research shows that two-thirds of the buildings identified are in some of England's most economically vulnerable corners.

Ordnance Survey works with Snowflake to tackle flood risk

Ordnance Survey (OS) has worked with Snowflake to develop Intelligent Flood Readiness, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered data model for assessing the impact of flooding. The model has identified that 1.2 million in England are at risk of falling outside flood protection measures, many in some of the most deprived parts of the country. The model’s main use is in policymaking, where it is able to support analysis of more granular data instea…

1.2m English homes at risk of flooding identified and mapped

With April showers increasingly turning into deluges, and storm overflows notoriously struggling with volume of water, a major new national project has marked which households need to be most worried.  Conducted by Ordnance Survey, and powered with AI data cloud Snowflake, new modelling has shown 1.2 million homes which are susceptible to flooding across England. This first-of-its-kind research is available as part of the organisation’s Intellig…