Conwy

Council pages

• Emergency planning Before an emergency (conwy.gov.uk)
• Gritting and winter roads Winter Gritting (conwy.gov.uk)
• Sandbags Flood Protection and Sandbags (conwy.gov.uk)
• Where rest centres or emergency help are announced Not found yet. Check the council website.

Power cuts

Network operator (not your supplier):

• SP Energy Networks (North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire)

SP Energy Networks needs an account for its live fault data, so we do not log it and have no count here.

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

• North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire (SP Energy Networks): 28.6 interruptions per 100 customers and 34.5 minutes without power per customer (2023/24: 31.6 and 33.4)

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

Flooding

Natural Resources Wales: 5 flood alert areas and 23 flood warning areas overlap Conwy. Waters named: River Dee, Conwy, Conwy, Llugwy, Lledr, Machno, Merddwr, Hiraethlyn, Elwy, Aled, Gele, Clwyd, Irish Sea, Nant Barrog, River Gele.

Warning areas include: Abergele Sea Road; Abergele Seafront; Clwyd Left Bank; Conwy; Conwy Valley Communities; Kinmel Bay; Kinmel Bay Promenade and Sandy Cove; Llanddulas; and 15 more.

Natural Resources Wales: flooding

Where the nearest A&E departments are

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

• Colwyn Bay: Ysbyty Glan Clwyd (16.5 km); Ysbyty Gwynedd (29.5 km); Arrowe Park Hospital (43.6 km, England). Nearest other emergency departments or minor injury units: Llandudno General Hospital (6.0 km); Nevill Hall Hospital (170.5 km).
• Conwy: Ysbyty Glan Clwyd (21.9 km); Ysbyty Gwynedd (24.1 km). Nearest other emergency departments or minor injury units: Llandudno General Hospital (2.3 km); Nevill Hall Hospital (171.5 km).
• Kinmel Bay: Ysbyty Glan Clwyd (3.8 km); Arrowe Park Hospital (29.1 km, England). Nearest other emergency departments or minor injury units: Llandudno General Hospital (20.4 km); Nevill Hall Hospital (167.6 km).

Never Caught Out is not affiliated with the NHS. For medical help that is not an emergency, contact NHS 111 Wales. About this dataset

Water supply

Water company for this area:

• Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water · In your area

Phone and broadband coverage

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

• Homes and businesses with 4G indoors from all four networks: 81%; from none: 0.7%.
• Outside homes and businesses, 4G from all four networks: 97%; from none: 0.1%.
• Land area with outdoor 4G from all four networks: 79%; from none: 2.9%.
• Premises that can get gigabit-capable broadband: 88%.
• Premises that cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up) from a fixed line or fixed wireless: 346 (0.6%).

Check an address on Ofcom’s coverage checker · Phones when the network is down: how to reach 999 · Your right to request decent broadband (Ofcom) · About this dataset

Coast

Yes. About 110 km of the boundary is shoreline at mean high water.

Local radio

BBC Radio Wales · BBC Radio Cymru

Weather warnings

UK-wide Met Office warnings in our log: 0 since 1 November 2026, 14:53 GMT.

Emergency planning partnership

North Wales Resilience Forum: its community risk register lists the emergencies planned for here.

Census 2021: planning prompts

• Households with no car or van: 18.5%
• Residents aged 65 or over: 27.3%
• Households of one person aged 66 or over: 17.8%

Largest built-up areas

• Colwyn Bay
• Conwy

  NRW warning areas naming Conwy: Conwy; Conwy Valley Communities; River Conwy at Gwydir Road; River Conwy at Llanrwst; River Conwy at Trefriw.

• Kinmel Bay

  NRW warning areas naming Kinmel Bay: Kinmel Bay; Kinmel Bay Promenade and Sandy Cove.

• Llandudno

  NRW warning areas naming Llandudno: Llandudno; Llandudno North Shore; Llandudno West Shore.

Neighbouring councils

Denbighshire, Gwynedd

Useful wherever you live

• Power cut: call 105 free. What to do in a power cut · Priority Services Register · Compensation calculator
• What to do in a flood
• Current Met Office warnings · What the colours mean
• Your water bill names your water company, or find it by postcode (Water UK).
• A battery or wind-up radio keeps working in a power cut.
• Census prompts: 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.

Publishing check

Before a local page is shown to search engines it has to pass every rule below on 14 nights in a row. Until then it stays online for anyone who follows a link, but search engines are asked not to list it. Last run: 1 November 2026, 16:38 GMT. Result: Not yet.

Fields we have filled: Council name and ONS code, Resilience forum, Electricity network operator, Flood alert and warning areas, Met Office warnings logged, Water company, Council emergency planning page, Gritting or winter service page, Sandbag page, Census 2021 planning figures, Local BBC radio, Coastal, Neighbouring councils. Not filled yet: Power cuts logged, Flood warnings logged, Strategic roads and closures, Where rest centres are announced, Local note.