Wrexham

At a glance

Type

Welsh principal area

ONS code

W06000006

Area

504 km²

Fire and rescue

North Wales

Police

North Wales

Emergency planning partnership

North Wales Local Resilience Forum

Largest built-up areas

Wrexham, Pentre Maelor, Rhosllannerchrugog and Acrefair and Cefn-mawr

Council emergency pages

• Council website wrexham.gov.uk
• Emergency planning Contact (wrexham.gov.uk)
• Gritting and winter roads Highway priority gritting routes (wrexham.gov.uk)
• Current emergencies and severe weather news.wrexham.gov.uk (news.wrexham.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):

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

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 Wrexham alone. About this dataset

Flooding

Natural Resources Wales: 2 flood alert areas and 3 flood warning areas overlap Wrexham. Waters named: River Dee, River Alyn, Alyn, Terrig.

Warning areas include: River Alyn at Rossett; River Dee at Bangor on Dee; River Dee communities from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.

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):

• Wrexham: Wrexham Maelor Hospital (1.7 km); Countess of Chester Hospital (18.5 km, England); Clatterbridge Hospital (31.4 km, England). Nearest other emergency departments or minor injury units: Llandudno General Hospital (63.2 km); Nevill Hall Hospital (136.4 km).
• Pentre Maelor: Wrexham Maelor Hospital (5.8 km); Countess of Chester Hospital (18.5 km, England). Nearest other emergency departments or minor injury units: Llandudno General Hospital (67.4 km); Nevill Hall Hospital (135.7 km).
• Rhosllannerchrugog: Wrexham Maelor Hospital (5.3 km); Countess of Chester Hospital (24.7 km, England). Nearest other emergency departments or minor injury units: Llandudno General Hospital (61.8 km); Nevill Hall Hospital (131.4 km).

About this dataset

Never Caught Out is not affiliated with the NHS.

Water supply

Water company for this area:

• Hafren Dyfrdwy · In my area

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 Wrexham: Wrexham (Hafren Dyfrdwy). What a water resource zone is

What to do when the water goes off

Local risks and emergency planning

• Flooding: 3 flood warning areas and 2 flood alert areas overlap the council area (details above).
• North Wales 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; Pandemic; Terrorism; Storms and severe weather; Animal disease; Industrial and chemical accidents; Transport accidents; Snow and low temperatures; Power cuts; Telecoms failure. 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 Wrexham, January 2026. They are not live outages and not a guarantee for any address.

• Homes and businesses with 4G indoors from all four networks: 84%; from none: 0.5%.
• Outside homes and businesses, 4G from all four networks: 98%; from none: less than 0.1%.
• Land area with outdoor 4G from all four networks: 89%; from none: 1.2%.
• Premises that can get gigabit-capable broadband: 86%.
• Premises that cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up) from a fixed line or fixed wireless: 81 (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 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: 19.1%
• Residents aged 65 or over: 20.3%
• Households of one person aged 66 or over: 13.9%

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

• Wrexham
• Pentre Maelor
• Rhosllannerchrugog
• Acrefair and Cefn-mawr

Other built-up areas include Brynteg (Wrexham), Llay, Gwersyllt, Gresford, Chirk and Coedpoeth.

Neighbouring councils

Cheshire West and Chester, Shropshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Powys

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