When it rains and it pours, here are Raleigh’s top flood-prone areas to avoid
Whenever it rains, and it pours, there are several spots in Raleigh where flooding is prone to occur.
The City of Raleigh has several flood monitoring cameras near streams and flood-prone areas, to watch for flooding. The city does not provide public live-streams from the cameras, which are intended to assist the city’s emergency response.
The city provides a map of repeat flooding locations, however, that will be updated throughout the day.
The locations where the city has placed cameras, which indicate flood-prone areas that should be avoided, are:
- Creedmoor Road and Crabtree Valley Avenue
- Wake Forest Road and Hodges Street
- Avent Ferry Road and Trailwood Drive
- Atlantic Avenue and Hodges Street
- Anderson Drive, Oxford Road and Claremont Road
- Lassiter Mill Road and Millstream Place
- Wilmington Street and City Farm (between intersection and Walnut Creek)
- Capital Boulevard and Hodges Street
- South Saunders Street at I-440
- Pigeon House Creek at Cameron Village
Other flood-prone locations where the city does not yet have any cameras installed but should also be avoided include:
- Blue Ridge Road, Glenwood Avenue and Lead Mine Road Intersection
- Garner Road at the greenway trail
- Gorman Street (between Avent Ferry Road and Walnut Creek)
- Lumley Road and Briar Creek Pkwy
- Walnut Creek at Buck Jones Road
- Walnut Creek at South State Street
This story was originally published July 8, 2021 at 9:54 AM.
Avi Bajpai
The News & Observer