Over a fifth of people in the UK ‘have had storm damage to their home in past five years’

Over a fifth (22%) of UK homes have suffered storm damage and one in eight (12%) have had flooding in the last five years, research for a major insurer indicates.

Two-fifths (40%) of homes have been impacted by some form of extreme weather, Aviva said.

Just over a third (34%) of people believe climate change will impact their home in the next year, according to a Censuswide survey of more than 2,000 people across the UK for Aviva, carried out in July and August 2024.

Aviva said that according to its own claims data, nearly a fifth (19%) of UK home claims between 2020 and 2024 were related to storm damage.