Overall Green Flood
in United Kingdom

Event summary

Flood can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1103066
Death: 1
Displaced: 855
Countries: United Kingdom
From - To 01 Jan - 08 Jan

GDACS Score

For more info on GDACS alert score click here.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
United Kingdom - Severe weather and floods (ECHO 12 Jan 2025)Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:23

  • In the past few days, heavy rain and snow have hit parts of England, particularly the Midlands causing floods and leading to casualties, evacuations and damage.
  • According to media, a person died in North Yorkshire due to a flood event while five houses have been evacuated in Great Glen, Leicestershire county due to the overflow of the Sence river and dozens of people have been rescued.
  • On 7-8 January, wintry showers with localised snow are forecast over northern, western and some parts of southern United Kingdom.
Central and Northern England, United Kingdom, Early January 2025Heavy rain caused flooding in areas of central and northern England, UK, in early January 2025.Tue 7 Jan 2025Provided by Copernicus EMS GloFAS
Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), NASA (3), WMO (1), INFORM (2), (1),