North Lincolnshire

At a glance

Type

Unitary authority

ONS code

E06000013

Area

846 km²

Region

Yorkshire and The Humber

Fire and rescue

Humberside

Police

Humberside

Emergency planning partnership

Humber Local Resilience Forum

Largest built-up areas

Scunthorpe, North Killingholme, Barton-upon-Humber and Belton (North Lincolnshire)

Council emergency pages

• Council website northlincs.gov.uk
• Emergency planning Bot Verification (northlincs.gov.uk)
• Gritting and winter roads Bot Verification (northlincs.gov.uk)
• Current emergencies and severe weather Bot Verification (northlincs.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 operator (not your supplier):

• Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire)

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

• Yorkshire (Northern Powergrid): 54.7 interruptions per 100 customers and 51.2 minutes without power per customer (2023/24: 55.2 and 53.5)

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

Flooding

Environment Agency: 11 flood alert areas and 28 flood warning areas overlap North Lincolnshire. Waters named: River Ancholme, Ancholme, Old River Ancholme, The Humber, River Idle, River Trent.

Warning areas include: Area at risk from the furthest extent of tidal flooding from New Holland to East Halton; Area at risk from the furthest extent of tidal flooding from South Killingholme to Grimsby; Barrow Beck in Barrow Upon Humber; Butts Drain in the Butts Road and Marsh Lane areas of Barton-on-Humber; Groundwater flooding in Barrow Upon Humber and Barton Upon Humber; Isolated properties and villages near to the River Ancholme from Bishopbridge to Brigg; Isolated properties and villages near to the River Ancholme from Broughton to Horkstow; Isolated properties near East Halton and Skitter Beck; and 20 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 Yorkshire and The Humber 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):

• Scunthorpe: Scunthorpe General Hospital (1.5 km); Hull Royal Infirmary (26.3 km); Doncaster Royal Infirmary (31.0 km).
• North Killingholme: Hull Royal Infirmary (13.2 km); Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital (15.0 km).
• Barton-upon-Humber: Hull Royal Infirmary (8.4 km); Scunthorpe General Hospital (18.6 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 North Lincolnshire:

• Anglian Water (about 72% of the area) · Check on or report an issue
• Yorkshire Water (about 28% of the area) · 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 North Lincolnshire: Lincolnshire Central (Anglian Water, about 51% of the area); Grid SWZ (Yorkshire Water, about 28% of the area); South Humber Bank (Anglian Water, about 18% of the area); Lincolnshire East (Anglian Water, about 3% of the area). What a water resource zone is

What to do when the water goes off

Local risks and emergency planning

• Coast: about 110 km of the council boundary is shoreline at mean high water, by our measurement (this includes tidal estuaries). Coastal flooding and storm surges are possible; the flood areas above include any coastal ones.
• Flooding: 28 flood warning areas and 11 flood alert areas overlap the council area (details above).
• Humber Local Resilience Forum publishes a community risk register: the official list of emergencies that planners prepare for here. The register document.
• 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 North Lincolnshire, January 2026. They are not live outages and not a guarantee for any address.

• Homes and businesses with 4G indoors from all four networks: 82%; from none: 0.5%.
• Outside homes and businesses, 4G from all four networks: 98%; from none: 0%.
• Land area with outdoor 4G from all four networks: 98%; from none: 0%.
• Premises that can get gigabit-capable broadband: 94%.
• Premises that cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up) from a fixed line or fixed wireless: 78 (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 Humberside

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: 18.5%
• Residents aged 65 or over: 22.0%
• Households of one person aged 66 or over: 14.1%

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

• Scunthorpe
  • River Trent at Scunthorpe
• North Killingholme
• Barton-upon-Humber
• Belton (North Lincolnshire)

Other built-up areas include Brigg, Kirmington, Epworth, Kirton in Lindsey, Winterton and Crowle (North Lincolnshire).

Neighbouring councils

East Riding of Yorkshire, North East Lincolnshire, West Lindsey, Bassetlaw, Doncaster

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