About Flood Path
A simple, free way to check whether a local path is under water before you head out.
What this is
Plenty of cycle paths, towpaths and footpaths flood after heavy rain — sometimes for an afternoon, sometimes for weeks. Flood Path tracks the ones with a river gauge close enough to give an honest read, so you can see at a glance whether to take your usual route or plan around it. No accounts, no fuss — open the path you care about and look.
How statuses work
- PassableThe path is currently passable.
- Partly floodedThe path is partly flooded — passable with care, you may need wellies in places.
- FloodedThe path is flooded and not currently passable. Best find another way round.
- No recent dataThe path has no recent river reading, so we can't say either way right now.
How readings and reports fit together
Every couple of hours we pull the latest level from the nearest river gauge — the Environment Agency’s in England, Natural Resources Wales’s in Wales — and compare it to the point where each path tends to go under. That gives a first read — but a gauge a mile away never tells the whole story.
So each path has a quick Been down today? report — passable or flooded, how you crossed, an optional note. Those reports show up straight away for the next person, and because we record the river level at the moment you reported, they steadily teach us the level where this path actually floods. Want a path added? Suggest it — draw it on a map, tell us how it floods, and we’ll check for a nearby gauge to correlate it with. We only list paths where a gauge gives us something honest to go on.