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Redditch29 Sept to 12 Nov

15 power cuts in Redditch since 29 September

  • 15new cuts since 29 Sept
  • 2in one day, 25 Oct
  • 12of 45 days with a cut

www.preparedbritain.co.uk/home-report/redditchOfficial feeds, counted daily

Santa is due in Redditch at 00:11, just after midnight on Christmas Eve. See his flight plan

Right now: quiet. No unplanned power cuts in Redditch at 06:20.

Power cuts

15

new unplanned cuts in the Redditch area, on 12 of 45 days

Busiest day: 25 October, during Storms Austen and Boelo. Redditch had more cuts a day, for its size, than 41 of the 99 towns we track.

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From our record of every cut National Grid publishes, read every 10 minutes and counted by the day each cut started; last counted Fri 13 Nov, 11:35. These are minimums. One fault can affect many streets, so this is how often cuts happen in the area, not how often one home loses power.

Flood

1 in 51

homes in Redditch has some flood risk

213 at high risk

Environment Agency, RoFRS edition v202606.

Weather

No Met Office warnings for West Midlands right now

All warnings

Met Office, read Fri 13 Nov, 06:20.

Water

Severn Trent Water

No hosepipe ban

Hosepipe bans as we last confirmed them, 5 Nov 2026.

Break-ins

Burglary rate

8% below average

police.uk, year ending March 2026 (police recorded crime).

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Sources: National Grid live network data, read Fri 13 Nov, 06:20, counted daily by us (last Fri 13 Nov, 11:35). Environment Agency flood risk, RoFRS edition v202606. Met Office warnings, read Fri 13 Nov, 06:20. Water companies and the Environment Agency, for hosepipe bans, confirmed 5 Nov 2026. police.uk recorded crime, year ending March 2026 (police recorded crime). Figures cover the Redditch council area, not a single street.

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