Bath and North East Somerset

At a glance

Type

Unitary authority

ONS code

E06000022

Area

351 km²

Region

South West

Fire and rescue

Avon

Police

Avon and Somerset

Emergency planning partnership

Avon and Somerset Local Resilience Forum

Largest built-up areas

Bath, Keynsham, Midsomer Norton and Radstock

Council emergency pages

• Council website bathnes.gov.uk
• Gritting and winter roads Find out where we grit in winter (bathnes.gov.uk)
• Current emergencies and severe weather bathnes.gov.uk (bathnes.gov.uk)

Councils announce rest centres, road closures and emergency help on these pages and their social media. Find your council by postcode (GOV.UK).

Power cuts

Report a power cut or check one: call 105 free from any phone, or use the operator’s website.

Network operators (not your supplier):

• National Grid Electricity Distribution (South West England), about 97% of the land area
• Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (Southern England), about 3% of the land area

Ofgem’s figures for the whole licence areas, April 2024 to March 2025, counting cuts of 3 minutes or longer:

• South West England (National Grid Electricity Distribution): 59.0 interruptions per 100 customers and 50.4 minutes without power per customer (2023/24: 57.5 and 46.9)
• Southern England (Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks): 41.8 interruptions per 100 customers and 51.2 minutes without power per customer (2023/24: 51.3 and 57.6)

Great Britain as a whole: 39.7 and 35.1. These are area averages, not figures for Bath and North East Somerset alone. About this dataset

Flooding

Environment Agency: 5 flood alert areas and 13 flood warning areas overlap Bath and North East Somerset. Waters named: Wellow Brook, River Somer, River Chew, Chew Stoke Stream, Winford Brook, Somerset Frome.

Warning areas include: Bristol Avon (lower) from Twerton to Bristol; Bristol Avon (middle) from Melksham to Bathford, not including Bradford on Avon; Bristol Avon at Bath, low lying properties set back from the river; Bristol Avon at Bath, other properties set back from the river; Bristol Avon at Bath, properties furthest from the river; Bristol Avon at Bath, riverside properties; Chew Stoke Stream and River Chew at Chew Stoke and Chew Magna; Midford Brook, Cam and Wellow Brooks; and 5 more.

Check for flooding now · Sign up for free flood warnings (GOV.UK). Floodline: 0345 988 1188.

Weather warnings

The Met Office issues yellow, amber and red warnings for rain, wind, snow, ice, fog, thunderstorms and extreme heat. Current Met Office warnings (choose South West on the map) · What the colours mean

Health: NHS help and the nearest A&E

For urgent medical help that is not life-threatening, use NHS 111 online or call 111. Find urgent and emergency care services · Find NHS services near you (NHS website)

The nearest type 1 (major) A&E departments to the centre of each of the largest built-up areas, by straight-line distance (as the crow flies, not by road):

• Bath: Royal United Hospital Bath (2.1 km); Bristol Royal Hospital For Children (18.1 km); Bristol Royal Infirmary (18.1 km).
• Keynsham: Royal United Hospital Bath (7.7 km); Bristol Royal Hospital For Children (8.7 km).
• Midsomer Norton: Royal United Hospital Bath (13.5 km); Bristol Royal Hospital For Children (20.7 km).

We have not found an open official list of urgent treatment centres and minor injury units for England, so they are not shown here.

About this dataset

Never Caught Out is not affiliated with the NHS.

Water supply

More than one company supplies parts of Bath and North East Somerset:

• Bristol Water (about 73% of the area) · Service status
• Wessex Water (about 27% of the area) · Current incidents

To report no water, low pressure or a burst main, use the company’s page above. Your water bill names your supplier.

Water resource zones covering Bath and North East Somerset: Bristol (Bristol Water, about 73% of the area); Wessex (Wessex Water, about 27% of the area). What a water resource zone is

What to do when the water goes off

Local risks and emergency planning

• Flooding: 13 flood warning areas and 5 flood alert areas overlap the council area (details above).
• Avon and Somerset Local Resilience Forum publishes a community risk register: the official list of emergencies that planners prepare for here. The register document.
• Hazards the register names include (our grouping of its wording): Flooding; Cyber attacks; Snow and low temperatures; Storms and severe weather; Terrorism; Telecoms failure; Industrial and chemical accidents; Transport accidents; Animal disease; Power cuts; Heatwaves; Outbreaks of infectious disease. Open the register for how likely and how serious each one is judged to be.

We list only what official sources say. We do not rate how safe or risky anywhere is.

Map

Phone and broadband coverage

Ofcom’s predictions of normal coverage in Bath and North East Somerset, January 2026. They are not live outages and not a guarantee for any address.

• Homes and businesses with 4G indoors from all four networks: 89%; from none: 0.7%.
• Outside homes and businesses, 4G from all four networks: 99%; from none: 0%.
• Land area with outdoor 4G from all four networks: 95%; from none: less than 0.1%.
• Premises that can get gigabit-capable broadband: 79%.
• Premises that cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up) from a fixed line or fixed wireless: 69 (0.1%).

Check an address on Ofcom’s coverage checker · Phones when the network is down: how to reach 999 · About this dataset

Local radio

BBC Radio Bristol

This is the BBC station for the county or area, from the BBC Sounds station list. Coverage overlaps council boundaries, so tune to whichever station you receive.

Census 2021: planning prompts

• Households with no car or van: 19.9%
• Residents aged 65 or over: 19.4%
• Households of one person aged 66 or over: 13.6%

Who would fetch food or medicines for you or a neighbour on icy or flooded roads, and who would you check on in a power cut? Ask your pharmacist about repeat prescriptions before bad weather.

Largest built-up areas

• Bath
  • Bristol Avon at Bath, riverside properties
  • Bristol Avon at Bath, properties furthest from the river
  • Bristol Avon at Bath, low lying properties set back from the river
• Keynsham
  • River Chew from Stanton Drew to the Bristol Avon at Keynsham
• Midsomer Norton
  • Wellow Brook and River Somer at Midsomer Norton and Radstock, Riverside, Welton and Mill Road areas
  • Wellow Brook and River Somer at Midsomer Norton and Radstock, Thicketmead Bridge and Coombend areas
• Radstock
  • Wellow Brook and River Somer at Midsomer Norton and Radstock, Riverside, Welton and Mill Road areas
  • Wellow Brook and River Somer at Midsomer Norton and Radstock, Thicketmead Bridge and Coombend areas

Other built-up areas include Saltford, Peasedown St John, Batheaston, Paulton, Chew Magna and Timsbury (Bath and North East Somerset).

Neighbouring councils

Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Somerset

Guides for any emergency

• Power cut: call 105 free. Priority Services Register · Compensation calculator
• Power cuts
• First hour of a power cut
• Flooding
• Flood alerts and warnings
• Storms
• Cold weather
• Grab bag and evacuation
• Emergency Alerts
• A battery or wind-up radio keeps working in a power cut.
• All council pages in England · All UK council pages