Further to WQ87253, will the Minister provide an annual breakdown of the number of flood warnings that have been issued over the last 10 years?
Answered by Minister for Climate Change | Answered on 13/02/2023
Welsh Government provides funding to Natural Resources Wales (NRW) to provide a Flood Warning Service. The NRW Flood Warning Service covers flooding from main rivers and the sea only. Over the last 10 years (Since 1 January 2013), NRW have issued the following Flood Alerts, Flood Warnings and Severe Flood Warnings per year:
|
Flood Alerts |
Flood Warnings |
Severe Flood Warnings |
Total by Year |
|
|
2013 |
391 |
104 |
2 |
497 |
|
2014 |
339 |
274 |
6 |
619 |
|
2015 |
449 |
121 |
0 |
570 |
|
2016 |
342 |
102 |
0 |
444 |
|
2017 |
276 |
23 |
0 |
299 |
|
2018 |
386 |
137 |
0 |
523 |
|
2019 |
434 |
105 |
0 |
539 |
|
2020 |
711 |
334 |
6 |
1051 |
|
2021 |
467 |
145 |
2 |
614 |
|
2022 |
325 |
172 |
1 |
498 |
|
2023 YTD |
159 |
65 |
0 |
224 |
|
Total by message type |
4279 |
1582 |
17 |
5878 |