Data source
Environment Agency: Risk of Flooding from Surface Water and Flood Zones
Surface-water flood risk bands and the fluvial and tidal flood zones for England.
- Licence:
- Open Government Licence v3
- Coverage:
- England
- Tools:
- 3
Role
What Environment Agency data lets a tool answer
Flood risk per property, and the flood-zone designation inside the planning check. A lender’s first exclusion criterion and a developer’s first constraint, answered from the Agency’s own layers rather than a third-party score.
Terms
Licence, attribution and refresh
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Attribution
- © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved.
- Refresh
- On each Environment Agency release.
- Coverage
- England
This page describes how MarketCode uses the data. It is not legal advice on how you may reuse what a tool returns; the tool pages say when a response carries licensed records.
Tools
Tools that read Environment Agency records
Derived
Models and indices built on it
These tools do not return Environment Agency rows; they return a MarketCode model or index computed from them. The methodology page explains each.
Site appraisal dossier
site_appraisal()Everything known about ONE site, assembled and judged — the site dossier.
Related
Sources it is joined with
- HM Land Registry: Price Paid Data
- HM Land Registry: Commercial and Corporate Ownership (CCOD) and Overseas Companies Ownership (OCOD)
- Ordnance Survey: National Geographic Database (buildings, land and sites)
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Energy Performance Certificates (domestic and non-domestic)
FAQ
Questions about Environment Agency data
What Environment Agency data does MarketCode use?
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Surface-water flood risk bands and the fluvial and tidal flood zones for England. Flood risk per property, and the flood-zone designation inside the planning check. A lender’s first exclusion criterion and a developer’s first constraint, answered from the Agency’s own layers rather than a third-party score.
Which tools read this dataset?
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3 tools: Flood risk for a property, Planning designations at a location, Site appraisal dossier. Each is available as an MCP tool and a REST endpoint at the same price.
Under what licence?
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Open Government Licence v3.0 The attribution we carry: "© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved." This page describes how we use the data; it is not legal advice on how you may.
How often is it refreshed, and what does it cover?
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On each Environment Agency release. Coverage: England.
Is there a flood risk API UK?
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Yes, in effect: the MarketCode tools that read Environment Agency are the flood risk API UK most people are looking for, reachable over REST with an API key or over MCP from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor with a sign-in.
See Environment Agency data answer a real address.
Thirty minutes, your property or area, every figure traced to its source.