Real stories. Real impact. Real-time.

Social media monitoring for weather impact.

Your eyes on the ground

FloodTags detects weather impacts by monitoring X, YouTube, BlueSky, Facebook, Instagram, and online news in real time. It delivers validated insights for operational management, disaster response, insurance, and climate trend analysis—adopted by leading agencies such as the UK Met Office.

We currently cover floods, landslides, mudflows, windstorms, snow, hail and wildfires.

All features

What we offer

FloodTags reads social media, news and websites and turns them into a structured, real-time picture of flood and severe-weather impact: where it is happening, who and what is affected, down to neighbourhood level and across 13 languages.

Real-time monitoring

Real-time monitoring

We track flood and severe-weather events in real time, from automatic detection and geolocation to the underlying posts, with queries, alerts and a live map.

Reports and insights

Reports and insights

We report what happened, from a quick overview to a detailed report including flood presence for model validation, at a click or automatically on a schedule you set.

Tailored media data analysis

Tailored media data analysis

We deliver tailored data analysis reports, multi-year event time-series, and manually validated data points, each built around your question.

How our tools are used

Five front doors, one platform. Each links through to a page with the full picture.

Stock photo of a flood in Venice, Italy

Early warning & Preparedness

  • Situational awareness
  • Forecast validation
  • Post-event verification
  • Impact datasets
Stock photo of a flood

Insurance & reinsurance

  • Footprint validation
  • Early loss estimation
  • Trigger validation
  • Past-event data
Stock photo of a flood in an African city

Satellite & Earth observation

  • Acquisition cueing
  • Flood-map validation
  • Urban & flash floods
  • Satellite tasking
Stock photo of a flood somewhere in Asia

Risk & climate analytics

  • Model validation
  • Impact datasets
  • Event time-series
  • Climate-impact trends
'Distribution during .....'; Increased efficiency and effectiveness of disaster reporting aims to support response and preparedness actions

Disaster response

  • Situational awareness
  • Find worst-hit areas
  • Roads & access
  • Situation briefs

Unique features for impact monitoring and analytics

FloodTags is a Dutch company specializing in transforming social media and news content into structured, actionable data. Through advanced, real-time processing of text and images, FloodTags identifies locations and applies domain-specific models developed by experts in flood and disaster intelligence. Built specifically for weather and disaster monitoring, FloodTags combines deep expertise with cutting-edge technology to help professionals detect, interpret, and act on events with unmatched accuracy—across operational response, insurance, and long-term analysis.

Real-time event detection

Detect events from text analysis (within a few seconds) as well as anomaly detection (via 10-minute updates).

Domain specific classifiers

Weather-impact data extracted with high confidence, using domain specific algorithms and approaches.

Geolocations from text

From the text, events are geolocated with a 97% confidence. More accurate than any other approach.

Past event access

Expand access and analyse historical data for comprehensive analysis on specific events.

Tailored user interface

The interface is designed for weather impact professionals, putting all your relevant information at your fingertips.

API and integrations

Connect to our API to access the data in your preferred software. FloodTags offers seamless integration with Delft-FEWS.

Clients and partners

The logo of the World Bank Group The logo of The Nature Conservancy The logo of the Philippine Red Cross The logo of Deltares The logo of the Tanzanian Red Cross The logo of the Watersnoodmuseum The logo of the UK Met Office The logo of Met Éireann The logo of Micro, part of Howden The logo of ICEYE The logo of BGS
The logo of the World Bank Group The logo of The Nature Conservancy The logo of the Philippine Red Cross The logo of Deltares The logo of the Tanzanian Red Cross The logo of the Watersnoodmuseum The logo of the UK Met Office The logo of Met Éireann The logo of Micro, part of Howden The logo of ICEYE The logo of BGS