Does ME11 5DZ flood?

Up to Very low likelihood

Properties in ME11 5DZ sit in the Environment Agency's Very low flood-likelihood band (worst property). The band is the worst found in the postcode — it describes the land around properties (defence-adjusted, rivers & sea), not any single address, and not today's conditions.

Likelihood bandAnnual chancePropertiesOf which homes
Highgreater than 3.3%00
Medium1% – 3.3%00
Low0.1% – 1%00
Very lowbelow 0.1%220

Over a 25-year mortgage, a property in a very low-likelihood area has less than a 3% chance of flooding at least once.

How much rain falls on ME11 5DZ

ME11 5DZ gets about 542 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 58 mm; driest March, 32 mm). That is 53% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year.

A thirty-year average for the surrounding area, not a measurement at this address and not a flood risk on its own: a dry area floods when a storm sits over it, and a wet one may drain away perfectly well. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.5 km away. Average rainfall: HadUK-Grid v1.3.2, Met Office. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Inside the full report for ME11 5DZ

FloodRadarProperty Flood-Risk Report
ME11 5DZ
Moderate flood risk — investigate further

Because properties in the very low likelihood band; 5 recorded flood outlines mapped nearby; 264 official warnings since 2006.

B Today — indicative grade (A best → E)
··· By the 2050s — EA climate scenario (in the full report)
⚑ Official warning within 10 km: Yes ⚑ Recorded flood outline within ~1 km: Yes ⚑ Flood defence mapped within 500 m: Yes ⚑ In flood zone 2 or 3: ···
Rivers & sea
Up to Very low
Surface water
···
Groundwater
Not assessed
Historic flooding
Recorded nearby
Warning history · flood map with building picker · 2050s view · insurance outlook · every dataset receipt — 18 sections

Flood-risk map of this area

Environment Agency flood-likelihood cells
High (>3.3%/yr) Medium Low Very low Marker = postcode centre Base map © OpenStreetMap contributors

The map above shows the real EA rivers & sea likelihood cells around ME11 5DZ. The small panels are illustrative previews of the report's per-layer map views — the full report draws each layer for real, plus recorded extents, defences and a building picker on an interactive map.

Official flood warnings near ME11 5DZ

264
flood alerts & warnings within 10 km since 2012
7
of them full flood warnings or severe warnings
2026
most recent warning nearby (2026-03-03)

Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood outlines near this postcode

DateMapped flood extentApprox. distance
Jan 1978 07308B100_JAN1978_Stour Tidal_Chetney Marshes ~2.4 km
Feb 1953 07308B100_FEB1953_Iwade CP ~3.0 km
Feb 1953 07307C100_FEB1953_Medway Estuary_Isle of Sheppey ~4.7 km
Feb 1953 07301B100_FEB1953_Chetney Marshes ~2.4 km
Feb 1953 07301C100_FEB1953_Medway Estuary_Isle of Sheppey ~0.6 km

These are extents the Environment Agency has mapped, not a list of every flood. Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded. The full report tests whether any extent covered the exact spot.

Named storms that brought flooding here

2013-14 UK winter floods (2013, 6 warnings nearby) · Franklin (2022, 4 warnings nearby) · Ashley (2024, 2 warnings nearby) · Lilian (2024, 2 warnings nearby)

The rivers that matter for ME11 5DZ

GaugeRiverDistanceTypical highHighest on record
Riddles Lane Groundwater Level 8.1 km 23.17 m 25.93 m

Live levels, predictions and rain-response behaviour are on each gauge's page and in the property report.

Storm overflows within 5 km

OverflowDischarges intoDistanceSpillsHours
Queenborough Wwtw The Swale Estuary 0.6 km 53 (2024) 619
South Street Queenborough Ceo The River Swale Estuary 1.6 km 22 (2024) 37
Queenborough Road Queenborough Ceo Ditch Trib Of River Swale 2.3 km 1 (2024) 1
Iwade Combined Emergency Overflow Ditch Leading To River Swale 2.9 km 1 (2024) 0

Official annual EDM figures — a water-quality signal for local watercourses, not a property flood-risk factor.

Flood defences

3 mapped flood-defence assets within 500 m — nearest ~397 m (embankment, engineered high ground). Defences reduce risk, never remove it.

What the full property report adds

The interactive flood-risk map with a building picker (your exact house, not the postcode), the 2050s climate view, surface-water and planning flood zones at your building, exact recorded-flood distances, year-by-year warning charts, watercourses including culverted streams, an insurance outlook with the Flood Re rules, and a printable document with every dataset receipt — start with the free preview, unlock for £19.

Flood risk at nearby postcodes

At-risk postcodes near ME11 5DZ — all in the ME11 district.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH). © Crown Copyright and Database Rights 2025 OS AC0000807064. This product is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, the copyright in which is owned by Royal Mail Group Limited and/or Royal Mail Group plc. All rights reserved. Licence number AC0000807064. Recorded Flood Outlines and warning history © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. Storm-overflow figures: EA Event Duration Monitoring. Flood defences © Environment Agency (OGL v3). This page summarises public area-level data — it is not a flood-risk survey and not a substitute for the official GOV.UK service. All data sources & licences. More postcodes: the ME11 district.