Description: The following probabilities are available for coastal flooding: High - 10 year return period, Medium - 200 year return period, Low - 1000 year return period and 200 year return period plus climate change.For most of Scotland, the climate change scenario used the UK Climate Projections 2009 (UKCP09) high emissions 95th percentile relative sea level rise projections for the year 2080. For the Outer Hebrides, UK Climate Projections 2018 (UKCP18) Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) 95th percentile relative sea level rise projections for the year 2100 were used.The coastal flood hazard maps show (where available): Flood extent, flood depth.
Label: Each year this area has a 10% chance of flooding. Description: This information gives the highest risk from surface water within a 50 metre radius of this property.
Medium risk means that each year this area has a 0.5% chance of flooding.
Where information on flood defences is available it has been included in this information and in the maps.
Surface water is sometimes called pluvial flooding. It happens due to heavy rainfall when drains and watercourses are not able to cope with the amount of water run-off from buildings, footpaths and roadways.