Does Banks flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 81 postcodes in Banks 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 2,121 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 Banks

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Banks watch The Sluice, River Yarrow.

• Crossens Pumping Station Structure
  The Sluice · 1.5 km away 1.21 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 43 min ago
• Castle Bridge Croston Tidal
  River Yarrow · 9.6 km away 1.34 m
  rises and falls with the tide · 43 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Banks'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 Banks

16 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Banks. The EA has issued 124 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 24 Oct 2026.

• Banks Enclosed Marsh, Churchtown Moss, Brooklyn Caravan Park, Homes Moss and Sugar Stubbs Farm
  no warning on record since 2006 0.4 km
• Old Hollow Farm
  no warning on record since 2006 2.1 km
• Banks, Banks Enclosed Marsh, Crossens, Land Houses, Holmes, Martin Mere, Scarisbrick Moss, Marshside and Marine Drive
  8 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2022 2.2 km
• Crossens, Marshside, Stanley High School, The Marine Way Bridge and New Pleasureland
  no warning on record since 2006 3.1 km
• Low lying land from Ormskirk to Southport including, Banks, Birkdale, Brown Edge, Mere Brow and Scarisbrick
  17 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Aug 2026 4.0 km
• Bacconsail Marsh, Hesketh Old Marsh, Hesketh New Marsh, Hundred End Farm and Rosepark Nursery
  no warning on record since 2006 5.4 km
• Low lying land to the north of Dib Road including RSPB Hesketh
  no warning on record since 2006 5.8 km
• Marine Drive
  no warning on record since 2006 6.3 km
• Poultry Farm, Saltcotes, Lytham, Lytham Dock and Lodge Farm
  no warning on record since 2006 7.6 km
• Freckleton Marsh, Riversway Docklands, Lower Penwortham, Hutton Marsh, Longton Marsh, Becconsall Marsh, Much Hoole Marsh, Bretherton Eyes, Croston Finney, Hesketh Out Marsh and Hundred End
  21 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2024 7.7 km
• Freckelton Pool
  no warning on record since 2006 8.4 km
• River Douglas and other watercourses from Parbold to Tarleton including Rufford, Mawdesley, Croston and Moss Side
  62 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 9.2 km

Recorded floods near Banks

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

• 10 Aug 2020 — Rufford Road
• 22 Nov 2017 — Gravel Lane Drainage
• 22 Nov 2017 — Sugar Stubbs Lane
• 5 Sep 2017 — Recorded flood Other
• 26 Dec 2015 — Tarleton Ornamental Plants, Tarleton Main river
• 26 Dec 2015 — Sandy Lane, Holmeswood

Rainfall near Banks

Banks gets about 877 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 99 mm; driest April, 48 mm). That is 25% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.5 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (1.4 km away), recorded 0.4 mm in the last 24 hours and 53.0 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 43 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Banks

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

High likelihood (8)

Medium likelihood (2)

Low likelihood (6)

Very low likelihood (65)

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.