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The Essex coast from Fobbing to Purfleet-on-Thames

The Essex coast from Fobbing to Purfleet-on-Thames, including Tilbury, Grays and the Dartford Crossing

Flood alert area Thames Estuary Essex, Thurrock East Anglia

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Nearby Monitoring Stations

Tilbury on the boundary

Thames Tideway • Tilbury • 1.4 km

River Darent • Hawley • 9.1 km

Steady · normal

River Cray • Crayford • 11.8 km

Steady · normal

River Ingrebourne • Upminster • 11.8 km

structure gauge

River Cray • Coldblow • 12.8 km

Steady · normal

Hornchurch_Bretons Farm

River Beam • Elm Park • 13.9 km

Steady · normal

River Crouch • Great Burstead • 15.2 km

Rising slightly · normal — Up 0.02 m since 08:30, rising slightly

River Ingrebourne • Harold Wood • 15.9 km

Easing · normal — Easing — down from 0.99 at 11:30, now 0.96

Flood Event History (38)

7 Dec 2025 at 10:14am Flood Alert

7 Nov 2025 at 8:14am Flood Alert

18 Nov 2024 at 9:08am Flood Alert

16 Nov 2024 at 2:05pm Flood Alert

10 Apr 2024 at 8:46am Flood Alert

8 Apr 2024 at 4:14pm Flood Alert

8 Apr 2024 at 7:49am Flood Alert

15 Jan 2024 at 9:39am Flood Alert

24 Nov 2023 at 11:00am Flood Alert

29 Oct 2023 at 5:13pm Flood Alert

1 Sep 2023 at 11:27am Flood Alert

10 Mar 2023 at 9:15am Flood Alert

24 Feb 2023 at 4:51pm Flood Alert

26 Dec 2022 at 9:53am Flood Alert

21 Feb 2022 at 9:40am Flood Alert

5 Jan 2022 at 9:29am Flood Alert

4 Jan 2022 at 9:30am Flood Alert

7 Nov 2021 at 10:19am Flood Alert

21 Oct 2021 at 10:23am Flood Alert

28 Apr 2021 at 3:25pm Flood Alert

19 Nov 2020 at 9:32am Flood Alert

15 Nov 2020 at 3:14pm Flood Alert

10 May 2020 at 8:39pm Flood Alert

11 Mar 2020 at 9:19am Flood Alert

10 Mar 2020 at 1:58pm Flood Alert

12 Feb 2020 at 9:06am Flood Alert

9 Feb 2020 at 4:46pm Flood Alert

28 Nov 2019 at 3:38pm Flood Alert

1 Oct 2019 at 4:17pm Flood Alert

1 Oct 2019 at 11:20am Flood Alert

29 Sep 2019 at 1:13pm Flood Alert

9 Dec 2018 at 9:34am Flood Alert

14 Jun 2018 at 3:06pm Flood Alert

18 Jan 2018 at 8:33am Flood Alert

5 Oct 2017 at 8:26am Flood Alert

14 Jan 2017 at 7:53am Flood Alert

13 Jan 2017 at 7:53am Flood Alert

10 Feb 2016 at 8:58am Flood Alert

Related Flood Areas

Official sources for this area

This area on the Environment Agency’s flood service →
Floodline quick dial: 213684 — call 0345 988 1188 and give that code for a recorded update on this area.
Area code: 051WACDV5B3

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.