North Norfolk

At a glance

Type

District council (two-tier area)

ONS code

E07000147

Area

967 km²

Region

East of England

Fire and rescue

Norfolk

Police

Norfolk

Emergency planning partnership

Norfolk Local Resilience Forum

Largest built-up areas

North Walsham, Wicken Green Village, Fakenham and Cromer

Council emergency pages

North Norfolk is a district council in a two-tier area. Norfolk County Council is the highway authority, so gritting and winter roads are a county service.

• Council website north-norfolk.gov.uk
• Gritting and winter roads norfolk.gov.uk (Norfolk County Council)
• Current emergencies and severe weather Home (north-norfolk.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):

• UK Power Networks (East England)

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

• East England (UK Power Networks): 44.6 interruptions per 100 customers and 32.5 minutes without power per customer (2023/24: 46.2 and 35.6)

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

Flooding

Environment Agency: 11 flood alert areas and 20 flood warning areas overlap North Norfolk. Waters named: River Bure, Ant, Thurne, River Thurne, Bure, River Ant.

Warning areas include: Outlying villages on the Bure, Ant and Thurne; Riverside properties on the River Thurne including Hickling Broad; The Norfolk coast from Bacton to Ostend, including Walcott; The Norfolk coast from Eccles on Sea, to and including, Winterton-on-Sea; The River Ant from the A1062 at Horning to Wayford Bridge; The River Bure from Brampton to Wroxham; The River Bure from Corpusty to Brampton, including Aylsham; The River Glaven through Letheringsett; and 12 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 East of England 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):

• North Walsham: Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (25.3 km); James Paget University Hospital (36.5 km); The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (63.7 km).
• Wicken Green Village: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (23.3 km); Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (40.4 km).
• Fakenham: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (28.5 km); Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (34.6 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

Water company for this area:

• Anglian Water · Check on or report an issue

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 Norfolk: Norfolk North Coast (Anglian Water, about 62% of the area); Norfolk Happisburgh (Anglian Water, about 17% of the area); Norfolk Norwich & the Broads (Anglian Water, about 10% of the area); Norfolk East Dereham (Anglian Water, about 5% of the area); Norfolk Aylsham (Anglian Water, about 4% of the area); Fenland (Anglian Water, about 1% of the area). What a water resource zone is

What to do when the water goes off

Local risks and emergency planning

• Coast: about 390 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: 20 flood warning areas and 11 flood alert areas overlap the council area (details above).
• Norfolk Local Resilience Forum 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 North Norfolk, January 2026. They are not live outages and not a guarantee for any address.

• Homes and businesses with 4G indoors from all four networks: 66%; from none: 2.9%.
• Outside homes and businesses, 4G from all four networks: 94%; from none: 0%.
• Land area with outdoor 4G from all four networks: 92%; from none: less than 0.1%.
• Premises that can get gigabit-capable broadband: 54%.
• Premises that cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up) from a fixed line or fixed wireless: 574 (0.9%).

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 Norfolk

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: 14.6%
• Residents aged 65 or over: 33.5%
• Households of one person aged 66 or over: 19.3%

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

• North Walsham
• Wicken Green Village
• Fakenham
  • The River Wensum, from Fakenham to Swanton Morley
• Cromer

Other built-up areas include Sheringham, Hoveton and Wroxham, Holt (North Norfolk), Mundesley, Wells-next-the-Sea and Briston.

Neighbouring councils

Breckland, Broadland, Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn and West Norfolk

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