Deterministic · OGL-sourced · fully auditable

Flood risk you can audit.

Property-level flood reports and assessments for UK conveyancing and planning — built entirely on Environment Agency and Ordnance Survey data, every figure traceable to its source and validated against measured truth.

No licensed third-party model. No fitted corrections. No machine-inferred values. Just the authoritative data, assessed by a deterministic method and validated against measured truth.

15.2M buildings indexed 539,829 surface-water records 31,696 historic flood outlines 2,586 river gauges validated 0.15 m RMSE vs detailed model

Four products, one engine

Built for the search, and the assessment.

Conveyancers get a fast, defensible flood search. Developers and consultants get automated fluvial, groundwater and drainage assessments their own competent person adopts and signs. All run on the same deterministic, zero-data-fee engine.

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Conveyancing Flood Report

A property-level screening of every principal flood source, with a clear Passed / Further Action conclusion and a professional opinion ready for the report on title.

  • Rivers, sea, surface water, groundwater & historic flooding
  • Defended and undefended risk, with climate-change allowances
  • Copy-paste professional opinion & insurability context
  • Prepared to the Law Society flood practice note
  • Returned on demand in seconds — full England coverage
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Flood Risk Assessment (FRA)

An automated desk-study FRA: property-specific present-day and climate-adjusted design flood levels from authoritative data and 1 m LiDAR — produced for your competent person to review, adopt and sign under their own professional indemnity. On sign-off, it is their FRA.

  • Present-day & climate-change 1% design levels (mAOD)
  • Recommended finished-floor level
  • Validated against measured gauges & detailed models
  • Automated analysis · your competent person adopts and signs
  • Sequential & Exception Test support
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Groundwater Flood Risk Assessment

An automated groundwater desk-study: BGS susceptibility, superficial geology, aquifer designation and recorded groundwater flooding, resolved to a clear risk class — produced for your competent person to review, adopt and sign.

Groundwater is a distinct hazard — a GWFRA complements a fluvial FRA; the two are not comparable.

  • BGS three-band susceptibility screen at the site
  • Superficial geology, aquifer designation & groundwater levels
  • Recorded groundwater-flood history
  • Three-class verdict, with mechanism & recommendations
  • Days, not weeks · honest boreholes/monitoring ceiling where risk is credible
In development

SuDS & Drainage Assessment

An automated surface-water drainage assessment: runoff rates and volumes from open catchment and soil data, sizing attenuation and a sustainable drainage strategy — produced for your competent person to review, adopt and sign.

  • Greenfield & brownfield runoff rates
  • Attenuation volume for the design storm + climate change
  • SuDS strategy options against LLFA requirements
  • Discharge-hierarchy position & outfall context
  • Sized for the appointed engineer to take to detailed design

How it works

Authoritative data in. Traceable verdict out.

No black box. Every rating is derived by a stated rule from a named open dataset, and every figure can be traced back to its source on request.

01

Locate

The property is pinned to Ordnance Survey mapping and the Environment Agency flood datasets at its exact coordinates.

02

Assess

Each flood source is classified deterministically against authoritative data and 1 m LiDAR terrain — no inference, no fitted corrections.

03

Conclude

A stated rule turns the source ratings into a clear conclusion, with a professional opinion and an audit trail behind every number.

The difference

Transparent where the incumbents are opaque.

The established providers lean on licensed models and a consultant’s word. Strata Flood shows its working — and runs on finer terrain at a structurally lower cost.

 Strata FloodEstablished providers
Underlying dataEA & OS authoritative, OGLLicensed third-party models
Terrain resolution1 m LiDAR · ~0.15 mGlobal DEM · metre-scale
Every figure traceableYes — to named datasetBlack box
TurnaroundSeconds, on demandNext-day / batch
Data licensing costNone — OGLPer-report fees
ValidationMeasured gauges & detailed modelsProvider benchmarks

Validation

Validated against measured truth — not our own marking.

Strata Flood’s derived levels are validated against independent Environment Agency river-gauge records and detailed hydraulic models, using the UK-standard statistical method.

0.15 m
RMSE vs EA detailed hydraulic model
validated at Paddock Wood · 90% within 0.18 m
8×
finer terrain than global screening models
1 m LiDAR vs ~1.2 m DEM
2,586
river gauges in the validation set
EA Hydrology, OGL
£0
dataset licensing cost per report
Open Government Licence

See it for yourself

A real report, start to finish.

Open a worked example — the verdict, the source breakdown, the professional opinion, and the full data provenance.

1 m LiDAR hillshade — Tiverton
1 m LiDAR hillshade · Tiverton
Site setting — OS Open Zoomstack
Site setting · OS Open Zoomstack
Computed egress — modelled extent
Computed egress · modelled extent
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Get started with Strata Flood

Whether you’re ordering a single search, evaluating the platform, or exploring a commercial partnership — start here.

Order a report Single conveyancing search, returned in seconds
Request a sample A full example report for your records
Book a demo A walkthrough of the platform & FRA
Sign in Access your account & past reports