Pembrokeshire

At a glance

Type

Welsh principal area

ONS code

W06000009

Area

1,618 km²

Fire and rescue

Mid and West Wales

Police

Dyfed-Powys

Emergency planning partnership

Dyfed-Powys Local Resilience Forum

Largest built-up areas

Milford Haven, Haverfordwest, Pembroke Dock and Pembroke

Council emergency pages

• Council website pembrokeshire.gov.uk
• Emergency planning Pembrokeshire County Council (pembrokeshire.gov.uk)
• Gritting and winter roads Pembrokeshire County Council (pembrokeshire.gov.uk)
• Current emergencies and severe weather Alerts, Closures and Emergencies (pembrokeshire.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):

• National Grid Electricity Distribution (South Wales)

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

• South Wales (National Grid Electricity Distribution): 42.1 interruptions per 100 customers and 27.5 minutes without power per customer (2023/24: 46.3 and 26.1)

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

Flooding

Natural Resources Wales: 7 flood alert areas and 21 flood warning areas overlap Pembrokeshire. Waters named: Ritec, Irish Sea, Fords Lake, Western Cleddau, Solva, Teifi.

Warning areas include: Cartlett Brook, Haverfordwest; Merlins Brook, Haverfordwest; River Fords Lake at Brook Cottages, Stepaside; River Fords Lake at Stepaside; River Ritec at Tenby; River Solva at Middle Mill, Solva; River Solva at Solva; River Teifi at Llechryd; and 13 more.

Natural Resources Wales: flooding · Sign up to receive flood warnings

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 Wales 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 Wales or call 111. Find local services (NHS 111 Wales)

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):

• Milford Haven: Withybush General Hospital (12.8 km); Glangwili General Hospital (55.0 km); Morriston Hospital (76.3 km). Nearest other emergency departments or minor injury units: Prince Philip Hospital (62.5 km); Neath Port Talbot Hospital (86.5 km).
• Haverfordwest: Withybush General Hospital (0.6 km); Glangwili General Hospital (47.6 km). Nearest other emergency departments or minor injury units: Prince Philip Hospital (59.1 km); Neath Port Talbot Hospital (84.0 km).
• Pembroke Dock: Withybush General Hospital (13.6 km); Glangwili General Hospital (49.7 km). Nearest other emergency departments or minor injury units: Prince Philip Hospital (56.1 km); Neath Port Talbot Hospital (79.9 km).

About this dataset

Never Caught Out is not affiliated with the NHS.

Water supply

Water company for this area:

• Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water · In your area

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 580 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: 21 flood warning areas and 7 flood alert areas overlap the council area (details above).
• Dyfed-Powys Local Resilience Forum 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; Storms and severe weather; Pandemic; Animal disease; Industrial and chemical accidents; Transport accidents; Snow and low temperatures; Telecoms failure; Drought; Terrorism. Open the register for how likely and how serious each one is judged to be.

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

• Homes and businesses with 4G indoors from all four networks: 77%; from none: 1.9%.
• Outside homes and businesses, 4G from all four networks: 95%; from none: less than 0.1%.
• Land area with outdoor 4G from all four networks: 86%; from none: 0.8%.
• Premises that can get gigabit-capable broadband: 69%.
• Premises that cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up) from a fixed line or fixed wireless: 355 (0.5%).

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 Wales · BBC Radio Cymru

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: 15.2%
• Residents aged 65 or over: 26.2%
• Households of one person aged 66 or over: 16.7%

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

• Milford Haven
• Haverfordwest

  NRW warning areas naming Haverfordwest: Cartlett Brook, Haverfordwest; Merlins Brook, Haverfordwest; River Western Cleddau at Quayside and Riverside Arcade, Haverfordwest; River Western Cleddau at town centre, Haverfordwest; Tidal area at Haverfordwest.

• Pembroke Dock

  NRW warning areas naming Pembroke Dock: Tidal area at Front Street, Pembroke Dock; Tidal area at Pembroke Dock.

• Pembroke

  NRW warning areas naming Pembroke: Tidal area at Front Street, Pembroke Dock; Tidal area at Pembroke Dock.

Other built-up areas include Waterston, Robeston West, Tenby, Saundersfoot, Neyland and Brawdy.

Neighbouring councils

Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire

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 Wales · All UK council pages