570 homes and businesses were flooded in September according to the Environment Agency . The worst hit areas were Wales , Yorkshire and the North East England . In Newburn , Newcastle upon Tyne a block of flats was completely undermined by floodwaters leaving the block looking precarious with the pile foundations exposed . Engineering surveys resulted in the likelihood that the homes were unsalvageable , leaving angry residents looking for the landowners and developers to take responsibility . The River Ouse in York reached a peak height of 5.02 m over normal . In North Yorkshire the British Army were called on to deploy sandbags in the village of Cawood to help save homes and businesses . A young couple who were walking their dogs along the River Clywedog near to Wrexham were caught in the flooded waters and drowned . Local authorities were left reeling from the floods asked the government to set up an emergency capital highways maintenance fund to help with the expected cost of bridge , road and infrastructure repairs from the flooding , as they had done during the widespread 2007 United Kingdom floods
2007 United Kingdom floods
2007 United Kingdom floods
2012 Great Britain and Ireland floods