Does Bath flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 439 postcodes in Bath 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 7,042 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 Bath

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Bath watch River Avon, Midford Brook, Wellow Brook, By Brook, River Boyd, River Chew.

• Bath Destructor Bridge
  River Avon · 0.8 km away 3.53 m
  normal range · 26 min ago
• Midford
  Midford Brook · 4.3 km away 1.18 m
  normal range · falling · 26 min ago
• Bathford
  River Avon · 4.3 km away 1.06 m
  normal range · 26 min ago
• Saltford
  River Avon · 5.9 km away 0.76 m
  normal range · 26 min ago
• Wellow
  Wellow Brook · 7.1 km away 0.87 m
  normal range · falling · 41 min ago
• Middlehill
  By Brook · 7.7 km away 0.34 m
  normal range · steady · 26 min ago
• Bitton
  River Boyd · 8.1 km away 0.19 m
  normal range · 26 min ago
• Bradford on Avon
  River Avon · 8.3 km away 1.20 m
  normal range · 26 min ago
• Wick
  River Boyd · 8.9 km away 0.14 m
  normal range · 41 min ago
• Keynsham, Rivermead
  River Avon · 9.3 km away 4.96 m
  normal range · 26 min ago
• Compton Dando
  River Chew · 9.8 km away 0.64 m
  normal range · 26 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Bath'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 Bath

9 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Bath. The EA has issued 66 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 18 Dec 2025.

• Grosvenor Bridge Road, Forester Avenue, Henrietta Gardens, Pulteney Road, Ferry Lane, the bus station, Victoria Bridge Road and Brassmill Lane in the Locksbrook area
  no warning on record since 2006 0.7 km
• Grosvenor and Kensington Meadows, St Johns Road, Henrietta Park, North Parade Road, the A36 and other riverside roads in Kingsmead
  no warning on record since 2006 1.9 km
• Upstream at Bathampton Bridge and Sports Fields to riverside properties at Twerton and Locksbrook. Including Pulteney Weir and nearby Sports Centre and Cricket Ground
  8 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2024 3.0 km
• Dolmeads area including Broadway Street and Archway Street, Dorchester Street, Manvers Street, Kingsmead area including Avon Street, James Street West and East Twerton including Lower Bristol Road and Brassmill Lane trading estate
  no warning on record since 2006 3.4 km
• Bristol Avon from Challymead Bridge to Bathford Bridge not including Bradford on Avon. Including Whaddon, Staverton, Avoncliff, Limpley Stoke and Claverton
  13 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2025 4.9 km
• Cam Brook including Temple Bridge, Hallatrow and Camerton. Wellow Brook from Lower Writhlington to Midford including Wellow and the Midford Brook including Midford and Monkton Combe Mill
  no warning on record since 2006 7.6 km
• River Cam, Wellow and Midford Brooks and tributaries
  27 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 8.3 km
• River Boyd at Wick
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2025 8.9 km
• Greenland Mills, Norden, Grist Court, Kingston Square, Bridge Yard, Lamb Yard, Bridge Street, Silver Street, Bull Pit, St Margarets Street, Church Street and Pound Lane
  14 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2025 9.0 km

Recorded floods near Bath

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

• 9 Jan 2014 — Flood Extent_Winter 2013 to 2014 Main river
• 3 Jan 2014 — Bathwick_Winter 2013 to 2014
• 29 Dec 2013 — Bath_Winter 2013 to 2014 Main river
• 25 Dec 2013 — Bath_Winter 2013 to 2014 Main river
• 24 Dec 2013 — Walcot, Bath_Winter 2013 to 2014 Main river
• 24 Dec 2013 — Bathwick_Winter 2013 to 2014 Main river
• 24 Dec 2013 — Bathford_Winter 2013 to 2014 Main river
• 24 Dec 2013 — Recorded flood Main river
• 24 Dec 2013 — Bathampton_Winter 2013 to 2014 Main river
• 24 Dec 2013 — Bath_Winter 2013 to 2014 Main river
• 25 Nov 2012 — Bath_Nov 2012 Drainage
• 24 Nov 2012 — Bath_Nov 2012 Drainage

…and 67 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Bath

Bath gets about 905 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month December, 100 mm; driest March, 57 mm). That is 22% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 3.1 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (2.8 km away), recorded 7.7 mm in the last 24 hours and 85.0 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 26 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Bath

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

High likelihood (95)

Medium likelihood (170)

Low likelihood (173)

Very low likelihood (1)

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.