Ealing

At a glance

Type

London borough

ONS code

E09000009

Area

56 km²

Region

London

Fire and rescue

London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority

Police

Metropolitan Police

Emergency planning partnership

London Resilience Partnership

Largest built-up areas

Ealing

Council emergency pages

• Council website ealing.gov.uk
• Emergency planning Major emergency plan (ealing.gov.uk)
• Gritting and winter roads Winter gritting (ealing.gov.uk)
• Current emergencies and severe weather Same page as above.

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 operator (not your supplier):

• Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (Southern England)

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

• 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 Ealing alone. About this dataset

Flooding

Environment Agency: 3 flood alert areas and 4 flood warning areas overlap Ealing. Waters named: River Thames, River Brent, River Crane.

Warning areas include: River Brent in the London Borough of Brent; River Brent in the London Boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow; Tidal Thames at Chiswick; Yeading Brook at Hillingdon.

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 London 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):

• Ealing: Ealing Hospital (1.9 km); West Middlesex University Hospital (5.9 km); Northwick Park Hospital (6.0 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 Ealing:

• Affinity Water (about 53% of the area) · Supply interruptions
• Thames Water (about 47% of the area) · Network latest

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 Ealing: London (Thames Water, about 47% of the area); 4 Pinn (Affinity Water, about 36% of the area); 6 Wey (Affinity Water, about 17% of the area). What a water resource zone is

What to do when the water goes off

Local risks and emergency planning

• Flooding: 4 flood warning areas and 3 flood alert areas overlap the council area (details above).
• London Resilience Partnership publishes a community risk register: the official list of emergencies that planners prepare for here.
• We could not read a hazard list from the register automatically, so none is shown here. Open the register to see the hazards it covers.

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 Ealing, January 2026. They are not live outages and not a guarantee for any address.

• Homes and businesses with 4G indoors from all four networks: 100%; from none: 0%.
• Outside homes and businesses, 4G from all four networks: 100%; from none: 0%.
• Land area with outdoor 4G from all four networks: 100%; from none: 0%.
• Premises that can get gigabit-capable broadband: 89%.
• Premises that cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up) from a fixed line or fixed wireless: 2 (0%).

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 London

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: 36.8%
• Residents aged 65 or over: 12.1%
• Households of one person aged 66 or over: 8.9%

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

• Ealing
  • River Brent in the London Boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow

Neighbouring councils

Brent, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow

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