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SEPA Flood Maps & open data
SEPA Flood Maps & open data (SEPA). Access: download / WMS / API. Formats: SHP, CSV. Resolution: vector. Coverage: Scotland. Pricing/licence: free (OGL).
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- River Flood Maps · Coastal Flood Maps · Surface Water and Small Watercourses Flood Maps (extent, depth, velocity and velocity direction by probability) · National Flood Risk Assessment flood risk grid · Potentially Vulnerable Areas · FRM Local Plan Districts · Flood Warning Areas · Flood Alert Areas · Floodline (access by request)
- Coverage llm-inferred
- Scotland
- Resolution registry
- vector
- Formats docs-verified
- ESRI Geodatabase · GeoPackage · WMS · REST
- Access docs-verified
- Free under Open Government Licence 3.0 with attribution for download, WMS and REST access; Floodline requires an access request; some Flood Risk Management Maps are view-only under acceptance of terms
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Site-level fluvial, coastal and surface water flood extent screening for flood risk assessments · Surface water depth and velocity overlays for drainage strategy and site layout checks · Flood risk and flood warning area mapping for planning constraints in GIS via WMS/REST layers · Long-term flood risk context for Scottish development sites in client briefs
- Audience llm-inferred
- flood consultants · drainage engineers · hydrologists · planners · GIS analysts · civils engineers
Limitations
- Constraints docs-verified
- WMS and REST flood map services are labelled Beta Service · Open Data Hub is a beta service · Floodline requires a request for access · Some Flood Risk Management Maps are view-only subject to acceptance of terms · Large downloads: surface water datasets range from 471 MB to 1.36 GB compressed, up to 25.3 GB uncompressed · No time span or spatial resolution stated on the page · Coverage as listed is Scotland only
- Licence
- free (OGL)
- Authentication
- Unknown — review source docs
- GitHub stars
- Unknown
- Last commit
- Unknown
- Last successful page check
- 16/10/2026
- Page health
- healthy
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
Provenance & evidence
Verified 2026-10-16 (curl HTTP 200).
Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: sweep-2026-10-16 (named: UK)