Which towns in Co. Donegal flood most?

By recorded events within 2 km of the town centre: Donegal Town (17), Donegal (17), Ballybofey (15), Letterkenny (14), Stranorlar (13). The OPW register counts reported floods, so a town with a long memory and a local paper scores higher than one where nobody wrote it down.

Is a house in Co. Donegal hard to insure for flood?

It depends on the street, not the county. Insurers use the OPW extents and past-event register at address level. Get the exact Eircode checked and ask the seller for the current policy schedule before you go sale agreed.

Where do these numbers come from?

The OPW past flood events register on floodinfo.ie, counted within 2 km of each town centre for towns with at least 100 registered sales since 2010. Town centres are the median location of Property Price Register sales, from homeprices.ie.

Flood risk · Co. Donegal

Flood risk in Co. Donegal: 247 recorded floods around 51 towns

247 floods are on the OPW register within 2 km of the centres of 51 towns in Co. Donegal. 49 of those towns have at least one. Below: where, how often, and what to ask before bidding.

247

recorded flood events within 2 km of 51 town centres (OPW)

49/51

towns with at least one recorded flood nearby

90%

of Irish towns sampled have a recorded flood nearby (955 of 1,065)

Where Co. Donegal has flooded

Across 51 towns in Co. Donegal, the OPW register holds 247 recorded floods within 2 km of a town centre. By source: river 145, coastal/estuarine waters 29, runoff 14, low lying land 11, other 3, turlough 1, lake 1. The towns with the longest record:

Donegal Town	17 events
Donegal	17 events
Ballybofey	15 events
Letterkenny	14 events
Stranorlar	13 events
Burnfoot	13 events
Newtowncunningham	11 events
Rossnowlagh	8 events

A recorded event marks the town, not the house. Two houses on one road can sit either side of an OPW extent line. The town pages below show the events with dates and OPW notes; the report puts one Eircode on the map.

Check one house in Co. Donegal

The area tells you the odds. The report tells you about the house.

Enter the Eircode. The free snapshot shows which of the twenty-nine checks flag up. The full report (€24.99, one house, no account) puts the exact Eircode on the OPW flood extents, lists recorded floods within 500 m with dates, and checks groundwater and coastal erosion maps.

Or read the sample report first: a real house, 16 pages.

Other checks for Co. Donegal

Co. Donegal is one of the five counties in the Defective Concrete Blocks grant scheme (mica). For any house built 1990 to 2015, the report checks the scheme designation and tells you what to ask the seller about block testing.

Flood risk by town in Co. Donegal

Questions people ask

Which towns in Co. Donegal flood most?: By recorded events within 2 km of the town centre: Donegal Town (17), Donegal (17), Ballybofey (15), Letterkenny (14), Stranorlar (13). The OPW register counts reported floods, so a town with a long memory and a local paper scores higher than one where nobody wrote it down.
Is a house in Co. Donegal hard to insure for flood?: It depends on the street, not the county. Insurers use the OPW extents and past-event register at address level. Get the exact Eircode checked and ask the seller for the current policy schedule before you go sale agreed.
Where do these numbers come from?: The OPW past flood events register on floodinfo.ie, counted within 2 km of each town centre for towns with at least 100 registered sales since 2010. Town centres are the median location of Property Price Register sales, from homeprices.ie.

Sources

Area figures, compiled from public records. They describe the town or county, not any one house. The paid report checks the exact Eircode.