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Environment Agency real-time flood-monitoring API

England. The reference page says "Water levels and flows are regularly monitored, usually every 15 minutes." but that "Transfer of data is typically once or twice per day, but usually increases during times of heightened flood risk." Readings are also archived: "The measurement readings are archived daily as dump files in CSV format." The checked response's meta reported version 0.9 and "Status: Beta service". History start and delay: Not stated.

Open environment.data.gov.uk
Signal Scoredraft model
88
Access
No key · none
20
Licence clarity
OGL-UK-3.0 · terms linked
20
Evidence
2 source links checked
11
Freshness
verified 2026-11-09
20
Documentation
docs · limits · coverage · attribution
17

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Access
none
Free tier
Free, no registration: "These APIs are provided as open data under the Open Government Licence with no requirement for registration." The service is a beta; the page says the open data APIs "do not offer a guarantee of service level and should not be relied upon for safety critical applications."
Rate limits
Not stated. The reference page gives a polling pattern instead of a numeric limit: "The efficient way to do this is to issue a single call every 15 mins".
Licence
OGL-UK-3.0terms
Licence note
Environment Agency real-time API reference: "These APIs are provided as open data under the Open Government Licence with no requirement for registration." Every API response repeats the licence in its meta block; the checked response named the Open Government Licence v3.0 at nationalarchives.gov.uk and commented "Status: Beta service".
Attribution
Required. The reference page says "If you make use of this data please acknowledge this with the following attribution statement:" followed by "this uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta)".

// Evidence · verified 2026-11-09

  1. 01environment.data.gov.uk/flood-monitoring/doc/reference
  2. 02environment.data.gov.uk/flood-monitoring/id/floods?_limit=2

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weatherfloodingukreal-timeapiopen-data

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