Does Benwick flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 25 postcodes in Benwick 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 506 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.

Flood warning areas near Benwick

3 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Benwick. The EA has issued 14 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 20 Oct 2023.

• Middle Level, including Pondersbridge, Ramsey St Mary's, Benwick and Welney
  14 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2023 3.2 km
• Middle level including: Pondersbridge, Ramsey St Marys, Benwick, Turves, Westry, Christchurch, Upwell and Outwell
  no warning on record since 2006 3.8 km
• Benwick, Ramsey, Earith, Chatteris, Doddington, Wimblington, March, Welches Dam, Purls Bridge and Manea
  no warning on record since 2006 7.2 km

Recorded floods near Benwick

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Benwick, 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 Apr 1998 — LNA_1998_April_River Nene_d/s Northampton Main river

Rainfall near Benwick

Benwick gets about 569 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 58 mm; driest March, 33 mm). That is 51% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.6 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (6.3 km away), recorded 2.7 mm in the last 24 hours and 33.2 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 30 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Benwick

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

Medium likelihood (25)

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.