Compare home insurance quotes for homes properties in flood risk areas
Flood insurance is a part of any standard home insurance policy and covers you for damage and losses caused by flood water.
If you make a successful claim for flood damage, your insurer will pay out to repair or rebuild your home and to replace destroyed possessions covered by your policy.
Flood cover on your home insurance could help you in the following scenarios:
Historically, it was difficult to find reasonably priced cover if your home had previously been hit by a flood.
The Association of British Insurers launched the Flood Re scheme in 2016 to combat this. Flood Re help insurance providers offer more affordable flood risk insurance policies.
Under the scheme, your insurer pays out if you make a valid claim for flood damage, but it can then claim back a proportion of the money from the Flood Re fund. This reduces the insurer’s financial risk, so it can offer you cheaper cover.
It depend on whether you take our buildings insurance, contents insurance or both and cover varies from insurer to insurer.
Read the policy details to see what you'll be covered for before taking out a policy.
Flood cover under buildings insurance can pay for:
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Flood cover on a contents insurance policy will include repairs or restoration for your household items. This included things like:
Any items worth more than your policy’s single article limit will need to be listed seperately on your policy.
If you want cover for valuable items like jewellery, gadgets, bikes or musical equipment you'll need to tell your insurer and probably pay an additional premium.
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Home insurance policies don’t all offer the same level of cover and some types of cover will only be available as an optional extras. For instance you might not be covered as standard for:
Check your policy details or speak to your insurer to make sure you're getting the cover you need.
You can make a claim for flood damage by:
If you're a student or a tenant renting a property, it's your landlord’s responsibility to insure your building for damages by flooding. If you own the contents of the rented property, you'll need to have your own contents insurance.
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You can check your flood risk by paying for a professional flood risk assessment or by visit the following pages:
In the event of flood damage, business insurance may cover the cost of repairs and restoration to your business premises.
If you rent your premises, it's your landlord’s responsibility to provide building cover. It's your responsibility to insure your business’s contents however.
The cost of home insurance with flood cover may vary depending on your proximity to water.
Homes within 150 metres of water pay around £211 annually for their home insurance, while homes over 400 metres away pay almost £169[1].If you're home has flooded before it may cost you more than before you suffered any flooding.
Insurers may reduce the cost of your premium if measures are taken to reduce to the possibly of water entering your home.
[1] From 1 July-31 December 2019 the average cost of home insurance quotes at GoCompare for properties within 150 metres of water was £211.82. The average cost of home insurance quotes at GoCompare for properties within 150 to 400 metres of water was £187.72. The average cost of home insurance quotes at GoCompare for properties over 400 metres away water was £169.72.
Page last reviewed: 08 July 2020
Next review due: 08 September 2020