# Flood alert: The tidal Rivers Bure, Ant and Thurne

**Event type:** Flood warning  
**Status in source feed:** current  
**Area:** The tidal Rivers Bure, Ant and Thurne  
**County:** Norfolk  
**River or sea:** Bure, Ant, Thurne  
**Warning raised:** 2026-11-13T08:51:32Z  
**Source update:** 2026-11-13T08:51:00Z  
**Dataset checked:** 2026-11-13T12:08:51Z  
**Official warning-area boundary:** 133.665 km²

## What this measures

The mapped outline is the Environment Agency's official flood-warning area. Its approximate area uses a spherical calculation and is not an estimate of flooded land, people affected, casualties, displacement or damage. The first release uses warning data only; it does not map observed inundation.

## Map backgrounds

- **Street map:** Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); rendering © EOX and MapServer. [Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0](https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/). Commercial static-map reuse is permitted with OpenStreetMap credit and ODbL notice.
- **Satellite context (2016):** EOxCloudless https://cloudless.eox.at by EOX IT Services GmbH (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016) [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The 2016 satellite mosaic is available under CC BY 4.0 for commercial static-map reuse with attribution. OSM overlay data retains its ODbL attribution. Historical background only; it is not current flood imagery or evidence of inundation.

The satellite panel uses a 2016 image mosaic as historical context, not as current flood imagery or evidence of inundation. OpenStreetMap labels are shown over both views.

## Source message

> High water levels today, Friday 13 November may lead to flooding. Flooding is possible throughout today, Friday 13 November. We expect to see high water levels around Potter Heigham, Wroxham boat yards and Ferry Road in Horning. Levels can take several hours to peak. We are not expecting the situation to escalate, or to issue any further warning messages at this time. We are closely monitoring the situation. Avoid coastal roads and low lying roads near rivers, which may be flooded. This message will be updated by 10am Saturday 14 November, or as the situation changes.

## Source and reuse

This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta). Data are provided under the [Open Government Licence v3.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/). [Open the source record](https://environment.data.gov.uk/flood-monitoring/id/floods/054WATBT1). Boundaries are from [the Environment Agency API](https://environment.data.gov.uk/flood-monitoring/doc/reference).

Prepared by TechnicalGIS Environmental News Desk. Dataset revision 3.