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River Calder in east Lancashire

Rivers Calder, Brun, Don and Pendlewater, from Laneshaw Bridge to the river Ribble including Trawden, Burnley, Nelson, Colne, Accrington and Whalley

Flood alert area River Calder Lancashire, North Yorkshire Cumbria and Lancashire

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Nearby Monitoring Stations

Whalley Weir in this area

River Calder • Whalley • 2.1 km (downstream)

structure gauge

Padiham Town Centre in this area

River Calder • Padiham • 5.0 km (downstream)

Steady · normal

Active Way in this area

River Calder • Burnley • 9.5 km (upstream)

Steady · normal

Oxford Road in this area

River Calder • Burnley • 10.6 km (upstream)

Steady · normal

Portsmouth Lennox Road

River Calder • Portsmouth • 17.7 km (upstream)

Steady · normal

River Calder • Todmorden • 21.7 km (upstream)

Steady · normal

Todmorden Millwood

River Calder • Todmorden Millwood River Level • 22.8 km (downstream)

Steady · normal

Todmorden Callis Bridge

River Calder • High Green • 24.1 km (downstream)

Steady · normal

River Calder • Hebden Bridge • 25.0 km (downstream)

Easing · normal — Easing — down from 0.22 at 15:00, now 0.19

River Calder • Mytholmroyd • 28.0 km (downstream)

Steady · normal

Flood Event History (50)

8 Dec 2025 at 7:54pm Flood Alert

20 Sep 2025 at 7:41pm Flood Alert

31 Dec 2024 at 3:15pm Flood Alert

5 Dec 2024 at 5:51pm Flood Alert

23 Nov 2024 at 7:25pm Flood Alert

23 Nov 2024 at 9:41am Flood Alert

30 Sep 2024 at 5:10pm Flood Alert

22 May 2024 at 4:50pm Flood Alert

4 Apr 2024 at 3:42pm Flood Alert

26 Dec 2023 at 3:51pm Flood Alert

9 Dec 2023 at 5:55pm Flood Alert

6 Oct 2023 at 5:12am Flood Alert

22 Jul 2023 at 6:11pm Flood Alert

19 Feb 2022 at 7:09pm Flood Alert

30 Dec 2021 at 5:35pm Flood Alert

19 Jan 2021 at 7:29am Flood Alert

24 Feb 2020 at 1:08pm Flood Alert

21 Feb 2020 at 4:56pm Flood Alert

15 Feb 2020 at 10:50am Flood Alert

9 Feb 2020 at 6:00am Flood Alert

7 Nov 2019 at 11:14am Flood Alert

28 Sep 2019 at 5:39pm Flood Alert

23 Sep 2019 at 8:50pm Flood Alert

21 Sep 2019 at 9:26pm Flood Alert

28 Jul 2019 at 8:30pm Flood Alert

16 Mar 2019 at 9:13am Flood Alert

13 Mar 2019 at 4:45pm Flood Alert

12 Oct 2018 at 5:36pm Flood Alert

20 Sep 2018 at 5:59pm Flood Alert

23 Jan 2018 at 8:53pm Flood Alert

22 Nov 2017 at 6:39pm Flood Alert

24 Oct 2017 at 5:25pm Flood Alert

21 Oct 2017 at 6:37pm Flood Alert

11 Sep 2017 at 8:26am Flood Alert

17 Mar 2017 at 8:08pm Flood Alert

21 Nov 2016 at 6:11pm Flood Alert

25 Dec 2015 at 6:18pm Flood Alert

4 Dec 2015 at 3:44pm Flood Alert

14 Nov 2015 at 9:28am Flood Alert

9 Jan 2015 at 5:23pm Flood Alert

4 Aug 2013 at 5:53pm Flood Alert

26 Jan 2013 at 7:10pm Flood Alert

28 Dec 2012 at 5:04pm Flood Alert

19 Dec 2012 at 4:33pm Flood Alert

24 Sep 2012 at 10:43am Flood Alert

24 Aug 2012 at 6:52pm Flood Alert

17 Aug 2012 at 6:02pm Flood Alert

5 Jul 2012 at 3:34pm Flood Alert

28 Jun 2012 at 12:29pm Flood Alert

22 Jun 2012 at 12:49pm Flood Alert

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Official sources for this area

This area on the Environment Agency’s flood service →
Floodline quick dial: 202028 — call 0345 988 1188 and give that code for a recorded update on this area.
Area code: 012WAFEL

Live warnings and area boundaries are the Environment Agency’s and the EA is the authority on them. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This area in the EA’s own data.