Flood risk · Culloden

Flood risk for Culloden

Indicative risk for the kilometre square around the centre, from SEPA’s flood maps. Always check a specific property address on the official map before buying or building.

River & sea flooding

Very low

No part of the square is in a mapped risk area.

Surface water flooding

Low

High

0.7%

Medium

2.5%

Low

2.5%

Nearest watercourse

Fiddler's Burn

A river, 1,194 m from the centre of Culloden

High: a 10% chance of flooding each year (1 in 10). Medium: 0.5% (1 in 200). Low: 0.1% (1 in 1,000). Below that, risk is very low.

For a property-specific flood risk check, use the official map from SEPA (Scottish Environment Protection Agency) at SEPA’s flood maps.

SEPA Flood Maps (rivers, coastal, and surface water and small watercourses): the level shown is the highest likelihood that applies to at least 5% of the 1 km square centred on Culloden; bars show each level’s share of that square. Nearest named watercourse from OS Open Rivers. ©SEPA 2025; this SEPA product is licensed under the Open Government Licence 3.0.

Data acknowledgements for SEPA’s flood maps

Coastal flood maps

Airbus: IR Aerial Photography ©GeoPerspectives. Digital Terrain/Surface Model ©GeoPerspectives. Lidar Digital Terrain Models and Digital Surface Models ©Infoterra Ltd.
Tide gauge data supplied by Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd.
© Environment Agency May 2010. Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2016. All rights reserved. This study uses data from Environment Agency provided by the British Oceanographic Data Centre and funded by UKCFF. © Environment Agency May 2019.
Wave buoy data supplied by European Marine Energy Centre Ltd.
Marine Scotland: O'Hara Murray, R., Campbell, L. 2021. East Coast of Lewis and Harris Climatology 1.02. https://doi.org/10.7489/12042-1
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research (2017): UKCP09: Land and marine past climate and future scenario projections data for the UK. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 2012. Met Office Hadley Centre (2018): UKCP18 Time-mean Sea Level Projections. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 2021.
© SEPA (2019).
Crown Copyright Scottish Government, SEPA and Scottish Water (2012). Crown Copyright Scottish Government and SEPA (2014).
Scottish Natural Heritage 2015.
Tidal data provided by the UKHO has been used under licence. ©Crown Copyright 2021, UKHO and the Keeper of Public Records. Maps derived from UKHO's raw VORF data, © Crown Copyright and/or database rights. Reproduced by permission of the Keeper of Public Records and the UK Hydrographic Office (www.ukho.gov.uk/copyright).

River flood maps

Aberdeenshire Lidar: Aberdeenshire Council, Aberdeen City Council, James Hutton Institute, Scottish Environment Protection Agency (2016).
Airbus: IR Aerial Photography ©GeoPerspectives. Digital Terrain/Surface Model ©GeoPerspectives. Lidar Digital Terrain Models and Digital Surface Models ©Infoterra Ltd.
Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data licensed from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology © UKCEH. Defra, Met Office and Department for Infrastructure © Crown copyright © Cranfield University. © James Hutton Institute. Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.
Data from the UK National River Flow Archive.
Contains Scottish Forestry information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Crown Copyright Scottish Government, SEPA and Scottish Water (2012). Crown Copyright Scottish Government and SEPA (2014).
Transport Scotland: this information is published under an OGL licence. Some data is derived from information provided by Transport Scotland under an OGL.

Surface water and small watercourses maps

Aberdeenshire LiDAR: Aberdeenshire Council, Aberdeen City Council, James Hutton Institute, Scottish Environment Protection Agency (2016).
Airbus: IR Aerial Photography ©GeoPerspectives. Digital Terrain/Surface Model ©GeoPerspectives. Lidar Digital Terrain Models and Digital Surface Models ©Infoterra Ltd.
Image courtesy of Channel Coastal Observatory.
This data is Crown Copyright and is reproduced with the permission of Historic Environment Scotland (HES), under delegated authority from The Keeper of Public Records. All intellectual property rights in this data is owned by Historic Environment Scotland (HES), and is reproduced with the permission of HES, www.historicenvironment.scot
Chan, S.C.; Dale, M.; Fowler, H.J.; Kendon, E.J. (2022): Extreme precipitation return level changes at 1, 3, 6, 12, 24 hours for 2050 and 2070, derived from UKCP Local Projections on a 5km grid for the FUTURE-DRAINAGE Project. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 31 October 2022. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/18f83caf9bdf4cb4803484d8dce19eef
Contains information supplied by Scottish Borders Council (2017).
Contains Scottish Canals information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Crown Copyright Scottish Government, SEPA and Scottish Water (2012). Crown Copyright Scottish Government and SEPA (2014). Crown Copyright Scottish Government and Furgo (2020). Crown Copyright Scottish Government and Furgo (2021).
Based on data supplied by Scottish Local Authorities.
© Transport Scotland (2021). This information is published under an OGL licence. Some data is derived from information provided by Transport Scotland under an OGL.
Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data licenced from Wallingford HydroSolutions, © Wallingford HydroSolutions 2017.

From SEPA’s Flood Map data attribution statements (5 February 2025).