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Flood areas-Cambridgeshire

Flood areas whose label contains the term Cambridgeshire

The flood areas API provide information on the geographic regions to which a given flood alert or warning may apply. These comprise Flood Alert Areas and Flood Warning Areas. A Flood Alert Area is a geographical area where it is possible for flooding to occur from rivers, sea and in some locations, groundwater. A single Flood Alert Area may cover a large portion of the floodplain, may contain multiple river catchments of similar characteristics and may contain a number of Flood Warning Areas. A Flood Warning Area is a geographical area where Environment Agency expect flooding to occur and which they provide a Flood Warning Service.

More details at: https://defradigital.blog.gov.uk/2015/03/24/near-real-time-flood-data-api/

this uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta)

More details available at: http://environment.data.gov.uk/flood-monitoring/doc/reference#introduction