Does this page mean a warning is active for Sheffield including Broadfield Road?

No. This page describes a permanent Environment Agency monitoring area. The separate live-status panel checks whether a warning or alert is currently in force. If the feed is unavailable, the current status is unknown.

What is a designated warning or alert area?

It is an official geographic coverage area used by the Environment Agency when issuing flood notices. An area can remain in the directory for years while having no warning active today.

Why can similar area names appear more than once?

The Environment Agency can define separate coverage areas for different river reaches, banks or nearby communities. Similar names do not necessarily describe the same official area; the EA reference identifies each one.

Does being inside this area prove my property will flood?

No. A monitoring-area listing is not a property-level assessment. Use the official long-term flood-risk service for an address and seek specialist advice for property, mortgage or insurance decisions.

Environment Agency monitoring directory

Sheffield including Broadfield Road

Designated Flood Warning AreaEA reference 123FWF578

This label is not a current warning. It means the EA has predefined this location as an area where it may issue a flood warning. The live panel below checks what is active now.

Live Environment Agency feed

Is an official warning active now?

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Official area details

Watercourse or coast: River Sheaf
Directory county: Sheffield
EA operational area: Sheffield
Coverage category: Designated Flood Warning Area

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Use this information safely

For conditions now: use the live panel and verify on the official flood service.
For a property: use the official long-term risk checker; this directory is not address-level evidence.
For river levels: open a nearby monitoring station and check the reading time.
For immediate danger: follow emergency-service instructions and call 999.

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Nearby river-level stations

These are measuring instruments, not reported flood locations. A station reading must be interpreted with its timestamp, station datum and any official threshold context.

Sheffield Oakbrook Road

Porter Brook · Don and Rother

Sheffield Centenary Works

River Sheaf · Don and Rother

Dore Twenty Well Lane

River Sheaf · Don and Rother

Nearby designated monitoring areas

Sheffield including Edmund Road, Cromford Street, Rowsley Street, Charlotte Road, Farm Road, Granville Road and Shrewsbury Road