Angus

At a glance

Type

Scottish council area

ONS code

S12000041

Area

2,185 km²

Fire and rescue

Scottish Fire and Rescue Service

Police

Police Scotland

Emergency planning partnership

North of Scotland Regional Resilience Partnership

Largest built-up areas

Arbroath, Forfar, Montrose and Carnoustie

Council emergency pages

• Council website angus.gov.uk
• Gritting and winter roads Winter gritting and snow clearing (angus.gov.uk)
• Current emergencies and severe weather Severe weather: news and guidance (angus.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):

• Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (North Scotland)

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

• North Scotland (Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks): 59.1 interruptions per 100 customers and 68.9 minutes without power per customer (2023/24: 56.6 and 65.6)

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

Flooding

SEPA (Scottish Environment Protection Agency): 2 flood alert areas and 13 flood warning areas overlap Angus. Flood sources SEPA gives for them: coastal, fluvial.

Warning areas include: Arbroath; Arbroath Coastal; Arnhall and Millhouse; Brechin; Bridge of Ruthven to Leitfie; Broughty Ferry; Edzell; Finavon and Tannadice; and 5 more.

SEPA: flooding, current updates and Floodline sign-up

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 Scotland on the map) · What the colours mean

Health: NHS help and the nearest A&E

For urgent care when your GP practice is closed, call 111 (NHS 24). NHS inform · Scotland’s Service Directory (find local NHS services)

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):

• Arbroath: Ninewells Hospital (26.6 km); Perth Royal Infirmary (55.6 km); Victoria Hospital (NHS Fife) (60.0 km). Nearest minor injury or other units: Arbroath Infirmary (1.4 km); Whitehills Health and Community Care Centre (19.1 km).
• Forfar: Ninewells Hospital (20.9 km); Perth Royal Infirmary (43.8 km). Nearest minor injury or other units: Whitehills Health and Community Care Centre (1.9 km); Arbroath Infirmary (20.8 km).
• Montrose: Ninewells Hospital (42.9 km); Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital (52.3 km). Nearest minor injury or other units: Arbroath Infirmary (19.9 km); Whitehills Health and Community Care Centre (25.7 km).

About this dataset

Never Caught Out is not affiliated with the NHS.

Water supply

Water company for this area:

• Scottish Water · Latest in your area

Scottish Water’s 24-hour customer helpline: 0800 0778 778.

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

What to do when the water goes off

Local risks and emergency planning

• Coast: about 100 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: 13 flood warning areas and 2 flood alert areas overlap the council area (details above).
• North of Scotland Regional Resilience Partnership publishes a community risk register: the official list of emergencies that planners prepare for here.
• Hazards the register names include (our grouping of its wording): Flooding; Cyber attacks; Storms and severe weather; Pandemic; Snow and low temperatures; Power cuts; Loss of water supply; Telecoms failure; Animal disease; Fuel shortages; Industrial and chemical accidents; Transport accidents; Building collapse. Open the register for how likely and how serious each one is judged to be.
• Sandbags and flood help: Flooding: advice for residents and businesses | Angus Council (the council’s own page; councils differ on whether they supply sandbags, so check what it says).

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

• Homes and businesses with 4G indoors from all four networks: 90%; from none: 0.3%.
• Outside homes and businesses, 4G from all four networks: 99%; from none: less than 0.1%.
• Land area with outdoor 4G from all four networks: 71%; from none: 8.6%.
• Premises that can get gigabit-capable broadband: 67%.
• Premises that cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up) from a fixed line or fixed wireless: 610 (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 Scotland

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 2022: planning prompts

• Households with no car or van: 20.0%
• Residents aged 65 or over: 25.1%
• Households of one person aged 66 or over: 16.3%

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

• Arbroath

  SEPA warning areas naming Arbroath: Arbroath; Arbroath Coastal.

• Forfar
• Montrose

  SEPA warning areas naming Montrose: Montrose.

• Carnoustie

Other built-up areas include Brechin, Monifieth, Kirriemuir, Letham, Hillside and Birkhill and Muirhead.

Neighbouring councils

Aberdeenshire, Dundee City, Perth and Kinross

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 Scotland · All UK council pages