Does Ashford flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 158 postcodes in Ashford 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 2,240 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 Ashford

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Ashford watch Old Mill Stream, Great Stour, White Water Dyke, East Stour Trib Great Stour.

• Aylesford Stream
  Old Mill Stream · 0.7 km away 0.93 m
  normal range · steady · 36 min ago
• Chart Leacon
  Great Stour · 2.1 km away 0.15 m
  normal range · 48 min ago
• White Water Dyke
  White Water Dyke · 2.4 km away 0.08 m
  normal range · 48 min ago
• Hothfield Upstream
  Great Stour · 4.7 km away 0.14 m
  normal range · 33 min ago
• Wye
  Great Stour · 6.3 km away 0.29 m
  normal range · 48 min ago
• Aldington Upstream
  East Stour Trib Great Stour · 6.3 km away -0.03 m
  normal range · steady · 33 min ago
• Brown Mill
  Great Stour · 6.4 km away 0.17 m
  normal range · steady · 48 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Ashford'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 Ashford

10 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Ashford. The EA has issued 95 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 5 Feb 2026.

• Communities on the Great Stour from Charing Heath to the A2070 including Ashford, communities on the East Stour, communities on the Whitewater and Ruckinge Dykes and the Aylesford Stream
  68 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 0.3 km
• Properties at risk from the East Stour and Whitewater and Ruckinge Dykes including Park Farm, Kingsnorth, the A2070, Beaver and South Ashford
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2019 1.3 km
• Aylesford Stream at Willesborough
  no warning on record since 2006 1.7 km
• Great Stour downstream of Hothfield Flood Storage area to South Ashford including Great Chart
  no warning on record since 2006 2.3 km
• Great Stour from Ashford to Kennington
  no warning on record since 2006 2.3 km
• Properties at risk from the Whitewater and Ruckinge Dykes in Shadoxhurst, Ruckinge and Kingsnorth
  5 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2023 4.2 km
• East Stour from Sellinge to South Ashford including Barrowhill, Mersham and Sevington
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Feb 2024 5.6 km
• Great Stour from Lenham Heath to Hothfield including Charing Heath, Little Chart and the Hothfield Flood Storage area
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Apr 2018 7.9 km
• Speringbrook Sewer (Hamstreet Arm), between The Street and Bournewood
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2020 8.4 km
• Hamstreet Arm Speringbrook Sewer from Dukes Meadow and Ruckinge Road, Hamstreet to the Royal Military Canal, including Hamstreet
  15 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2024 8.4 km

Recorded floods near Ashford

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

• 11 Feb 2001 — 07309A200FEO_Upper_Stour Main river
• 5 Nov 2000 — 07309A200_NOV2000_Upper_Stour Main river
• 1 Mar 1974 — 07311A300_MAR1974_Stour_Kingsnorth
• 21 Sep 1973 — 07311A310_SEPT1973_Ashford_Great Stour Main river
• 21 Sep 1973 — 07311A200_SEPT1973_Ashford_Great Stour Main river
• 21 Sep 1973 — 07311A330_SEPT1973_Ashford_Great Stour Main river
• 20 Jul 1972 — 07311A310_JUL1972_Ashford_East Stour Main river

Rainfall near Ashford

Ashford gets about 775 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 92 mm; driest March, 45 mm). That is 33% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.6 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (2.0 km away), recorded 4.0 mm in the last 24 hours and 67.5 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 33 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Ashford

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

High likelihood (38)

Medium likelihood (13)

Low likelihood (84)

Very low likelihood (23)

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.