Flood Estimation Handbook
The essential tool for civil engineers, housing developers, insurers and others for rainfall and river flood frequency estimates in the UK
We’ve updated the original CD-ROM software to a new online service.
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What is the FEH?
The Flood Estimation Handbook (FEH) offers guidance on rainfall and river flood frequency estimation in the UK. Flood frequency estimates are required for the planning and assessment of flood defences, and the design of other structures such as bridges, culverts, and reservoir spillways.
What is it for?
- Flood defence planning
- Flood risk analysis
- New development planning
- Rarity assessment of notable rainfalls or floods
Web Service highlights
- Multi-scale OS mapping
- Intuitive track/pan/zoom map interface
- Detailed, scaleable catchment boundaries: export to ESRI shapefile or PNG
- Export catchment descriptors at 50m resolution
- New for 2016: point descriptor and rainfall information
- Depth/duration/frequency modelling using the FEH 1999 and new 2013 models
- Interactive rainfall graphs
- More information
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