Does Aylesford flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 31 postcodes in Aylesford 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 646 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 Aylesford

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Aylesford watch River Medway.

• Allington Lock Structure
  River Medway · 2.3 km away 3.90 mAOD
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 34 min ago
• Allington Marina
  River Medway · 2.8 km away 0.14 m
  normal range · rising · 34 min ago
• Maidstone Structure
  River Medway · 4.5 km away 0.31 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 34 min ago
• East Farleigh Gate Upstream
  River Medway · 5.4 km away 1.36 m
  normal range · 34 min ago
• Teston
  River Medway · 6.1 km away 0.45 m
  normal range · falling · 34 min ago
• Yalding Hampstead Lock Structure
  River Medway · 9.4 km away 1.71 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 34 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Aylesford'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 Aylesford

7 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Aylesford. The EA has issued 129 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 3 Feb 2026.

• River Medway from Hampstead Lock at Yalding to Allington Lock, including East Farleigh, Wateringbury, Teston and Teston Park, Tovil and Maidstone including Millennium Park
  95 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 1.6 km
• River Medway at Maidstone, including Tovil, Allington, Allington Marina and Aylesford
  no warning on record since 2006 2.2 km
• Tidal River Medway between Allington and Cuxton
  no warning on record since 2006 3.1 km
• River Medway between Yalding and Maidstone, including Wateringbury, West Farleigh, Teston and East Farleigh
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 6.7 km
• Areas at risk of flooding from the tidal River Medway and the Medway Estuary, including Aylesford, Larkfield, Wouldham, Medway Towns, Upnor, Hoo and Lower Halstow
  9 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Apr 2024 8.9 km
• Little Venice Country Park and Marina, including low lying properties in Yalding around Yalding Bridge
  10 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 9.3 km
• Yalding including Benover and Congelow
  9 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 10.0 km

Recorded floods near Aylesford

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

• 23 Dec 2013 — 07302C200_Dec2013_Medway_Eden_Teise_Beult Main river
• 11 Oct 2000 — 07302C200_OCT2000_Medway Main river
• 11 Oct 2000 — 07302C200_OCT2000_Medway Tidal Main river
• 26 Dec 1979 — 07302C200_DEC1979_Middle Medway_Maidstone Main river
• 14 Sep 1968 — 07301C110_SEPT1968_Snodland Millstream_Leybourne
• 1 Sep 1968 — 07302E200_Sept1968_Len_Bearsted Main river
• 1 Sep 1968 — 07302E200_Sept1968_Medway_Maidstone_Bearsted Main river
• 10 Dec 1965 — 07301C100_DEC1965_Medway_Aylesford Ordinary watercourse
• 2 Nov 1960 — 07302E200_NOV1960_Len_Bearsted Main river
• 2 Nov 1960 — 07301C100_NOV1960_Medway Tidal_Snodland Drainage
• 2 Nov 1960 — 07302C200_NOV1960_Medway_Maidstone Main river
• 2 Nov 1960 — 07302E200_NOV1960_Medway_Maidstone Main river

…and 4 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Aylesford

Aylesford gets about 679 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 76 mm; driest July, 42 mm). That is 42% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.4 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (2.8 km away), recorded 2.3 mm in the last 24 hours and 55.0 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 34 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Aylesford

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

High likelihood (14)

Medium likelihood (9)

Low likelihood (8)

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.