River Stort and Stansted Brook catchment

The River Stort, Stansted Brook and their tributaries from Clavering to Hoddesdon including Stansted Mountfitchet, Bishops Stortford, Sawbridgeworth and Harlow

Flood alert area River Stort, Stansted Brook Essex, Hertfordshire Herts and North London

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Sawbridgeworth on the boundary

River Stort • Sawbridgeworth • 3.3 km (downstream)

Falling · normal

1.11 m

35min ago

Harlow Mill in this area

River Stort • Harlow • 4.3 km (downstream)

Rising · normal

0.98 m

35min ago

Bishops Stortford, Grange Paddocks in this area

River Stort • Bishop's Stortford • 5.5 km (upstream)

Steady · below normal

-0.04 m

35min ago

Stansted Mountfitchet, Gypsy Lane on the boundary

Stansted Brook • Stansted Mountfitchet • 7.9 km (upstream)

structure gauge

0.07 m

35min ago

Roydon, Glen Faba in this area

River Stort • Roydon • 10.8 km (downstream)

Steady · normal

1.43 m

35min ago

Clavering in this area

River Stort • Clavering • 14.7 km (upstream)

Steady · normal

0.04 m

35min ago

Pishiobury Brook in this area

Pishiobury Brook • Harlow • 4.3 km

Pincey Brook • Churchgate Street • 5.3 km

River Ash • Little Hadham • 6.1 km

River Ash • Wareside • 7.6 km

Steady · normal

0.11 m

35min ago

Flood Event History (48)

16 Feb 2026 at 11:09am Flood Alert

7 Feb 2026 at 8:33am Flood Alert

15 Jan 2026 at 5:18pm Flood Alert

8 Jan 2026 at 7:18pm Flood Alert

13 Jun 2025 at 5:26pm Flood Alert

5 Jan 2025 at 6:08pm Flood Alert

8 Dec 2024 at 4:30pm Flood Alert

1 Oct 2024 at 5:53pm Flood Alert

27 Sep 2024 at 9:00am Flood Alert

17 Feb 2024 at 7:43pm Flood Alert

8 Feb 2024 at 6:47pm Flood Alert

4 Jan 2024 at 9:12pm Flood Alert

2 Jan 2024 at 8:06pm Flood Alert

2 Nov 2023 at 7:42am Flood Alert

20 Sep 2023 at 5:59pm Flood Alert

31 Mar 2023 at 8:35pm Flood Alert

28 Jan 2021 at 7:52am Flood Alert

15 Jan 2021 at 10:01am Flood Alert

14 Jan 2021 at 7:18am Flood Alert

27 Dec 2020 at 8:34am Flood Alert

23 Dec 2020 at 5:01pm Flood Alert

3 Dec 2020 at 9:56pm Flood Alert

15 Nov 2020 at 10:44am Flood Alert

16 Feb 2020 at 5:17pm Flood Alert

20 Dec 2019 at 10:46am Flood Alert

29 Dec 2017 at 4:41pm Flood Alert

26 Dec 2017 at 12:40pm Flood Alert

27 Jun 2017 at 9:47pm Flood Alert

11 Jan 2016 at 10:47am Flood Alert

3 Jan 2016 at 12:14pm Flood Alert

14 Jan 2015 at 7:55pm Flood Alert

23 Nov 2014 at 9:03am Flood Alert

7 Feb 2014 at 9:22am Flood Alert

1 Feb 2014 at 5:39am Flood Alert

23 Dec 2013 at 3:24pm Flood Alert

27 Jan 2013 at 3:21pm Flood Alert

20 Dec 2012 at 4:54pm Flood Alert

11 Jun 2012 at 1:51pm Flood Alert

9 May 2012 at 5:25pm Flood Alert

3 May 2012 at 8:10am Flood Alert

29 Apr 2012 at 8:04am Flood Alert

18 Jan 2011 at 10:11am Flood Alert

12 Jan 2011 at 10:32pm Flood Alert

28 Feb 2010 at 11:14am Flood Alert

29 Nov 2009 at 9:34pm Flood Alert

13 Feb 2009 at 8:23pm Flood Alert

9 Feb 2009 at 8:24pm Flood Alert

25 Jan 2009 at 7:37pm Flood Alert

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Official sources for this area

This area on the Environment Agency’s flood service →
Floodline quick dial: 172126 — call 0345 988 1188 and give that code for a recorded update on this area.
Area code: 062WAF51Stort

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.

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River Stort and Stansted Brook catchment

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