Does Alsager flood?

What the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk data says about Alsager

Ordnance Survey places 23 postcodes in Alsager in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset (Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea). Each postcode is counted once, under the worst band any of its properties reaches; together they hold 171 properties in the EA dataset's likelihood bands.

This dataset covers flooding from rivers and the sea only — one of five flood sources. Surface water, groundwater, sewers and reservoirs are assessed separately, so a postcode missing from it is not proof that a place cannot flood. The band describes the land around properties (allowing for defences), not any single address and not today's conditions.

Rivers and live river levels near Alsager

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Alsager watch River Wheelock, Ford Green Brook, River Trent.

• Wheelock Crewe Road
  River Wheelock · 6.2 km away 0.55 m
  normal range · 27 min ago
• Brookhouse Farm
  Ford Green Brook · 8.3 km away 0.44 m
  normal range · 42 min ago
• Knypersley
  River Trent · 9.8 km away 0.43 m
  normal range · 42 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Alsager's at-risk postcodes. Tidal and structure gauges are shown as readings only — the tide and sluice gates move them, not floods. A gauge with no recent reading shows no level.

Flood warning areas near Alsager

3 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Alsager. The EA has issued 3 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 23 Oct 2026.

• Properties along Crewe Road, Chapel Street and Cottons Lane including Wheelock Methodist Church
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Jan 2024 6.2 km
• Ashfield Brook at Newcastle-Under-Lyme from Meadow Lane to Knutton Lane
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 9.1 km
• Ford Green Brook at Fegg Hayes, Bradeley and Sneyd Green, Stoke on Trent including Catherine Road in Fegg Hayes, Tudor Rose Way and Station Crescent in Bradeley and Milton Road in Sneyd Green
  no warning on record since 2006 9.9 km

Recorded floods near Alsager

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Alsager, most recent first. Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded. See them on the map →

• 20 Oct 2023 — Scholar Green - 99 Station Road, Scholar Green
• 26 Oct 2019 — Weelcol Main river
• 30 Oct 2000 — WHEE Main river
• 23 Oct 1998 — ARCL

Rainfall near Alsager

Alsager gets about 753 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 79 mm; driest March, 48 mm). That is 35% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 3.3 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (5.9 km away), recorded 9.6 mm in the last 24 hours and 60.6 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 27 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Alsager

Every postcode Ordnance Survey places in Alsager that appears in the EA's rivers-and-sea dataset, worst band first. Each links to its own flood-risk page.

High likelihood (5)

Medium likelihood (4)

Low likelihood (14)

Postcode districts

Sources

FloodRadar summarises public flood data. It is not a flood-risk survey of any property, and it does not replace official GOV.UK flood warnings or the GOV.UK long-term flood risk service.