Does Bexhill-on-Sea flood?

What the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk data says about Bexhill-on-Sea

Ordnance Survey places 66 postcodes in Bexhill-on-Sea 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 790 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 Bexhill-on-Sea

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Bexhill-on-Sea watch Cuckmere & Pevensey Levels, Combe Haven, Salt Haven.

• Sheepwash Bridge Tidal
  Cuckmere & Pevensey Levels · 4.4 km away 1.06 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 36 min ago
• Crowhurst
  Combe Haven · 4.9 km away 4.96 mAOD
  below normal · steady · 36 min ago
• Pevensey Tidal
  Salt Haven · 7.9 km away -1.71 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 36 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Bexhill-on-Sea'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 Bexhill-on-Sea

18 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Bexhill-on-Sea. The EA has issued 325 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 25 Oct 2026.

• Coastal areas of Bexhill including West Parade, Egerton Park and De La Warr Parade
  no warning on record since 2006 0.9 km
• Coastal areas of Bexhill including West Parade, Egerton Park and De La Warr Parade
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2013 0.9 km
• Combe Haven, Powdermill and Watermill streams
  110 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 4.0 km
• Combe Haven at Bulverhythe including Bulverhythe Road and Bexhill Road at Sheepwash Bridge
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2024 4.1 km
• Coastal areas of Bulverhythe including areas between the Railway track and Bexhill Road and West Marina Gardens
  no warning on record since 2006 4.7 km
• Coastal areas of Bulverhythe including areas between the Railway track and Bexhill Road and West Marina Gardens
  32 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Apr 2024 4.7 km
• Powdermill Stream at Crowhurst from the Post Office to the Recreation Ground South of Sandrock Hill Road
  26 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2024 5.0 km
• Hollington Stream from Hollington Old Lane to Harley Shute including Coventry Road and Stonehouse Drive
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Apr 2023 5.6 km
• Hollington Stream from Hollington Old Lane to Harley Shute including Coventry Road and Stonehouse Drive
  11 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Aug 2026 5.6 km
• Coastal areas of Pevensey seafront between Sovereign Harbour and Beach including Norman Road Pevensey, The Promenade Pevensey, The Parade Pevensey, Beachlands, Normans Bay and the Cooden Beach Hotel
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 7.9 km
• Coastal areas of Pevensey seafront between Sovereign Harbour and Cooden Beach including Norman Road Pevensey, The Promenade Pevensey, The Parade Pevensey, Beachlands, Normans Bay and the Cooden Beach Hotel
  64 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 7.9 km
• Areas of Pevensey at risk from a high tide including the Crumbles, East Langley Levels, Mountney Bridge, Pevensey Bay, Pevensey, Manxey, Horse Eye and Hooe Levels
  no warning on record since 2006 8.2 km

Recorded floods near Bexhill-on-Sea

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

• 5 Dec 2009 — 07418K109FEO_DEC2009_Gorringe_Stream Main river
• 5 Dec 2009 — 07418K205FEO_DEC2009_Wallers_Haven Main river
• 5 Dec 2009 — 07418K101FEO_DEC2009_Coombe_Haven Main river
• 5 Dec 2009 — 07418K201FEO_DEC2009_East Stream Main river
• 7 Jul 2009 — 07418K107FEO_Jul_2009_Hollington Main river
• 1 Feb 1970 — 07418K204FEO_FEB1970_Bexhill Ordinary watercourse

Rainfall near Bexhill-on-Sea

Bexhill-on-Sea gets about 790 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month December, 98 mm; driest April, 45 mm). That is 32% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 0.8 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (6.9 km away), recorded 2.0 mm in the last 24 hours and 79.2 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 36 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Bexhill-on-Sea

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

High likelihood (43)

Medium likelihood (1)

Low likelihood (9)

Very low likelihood (13)

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.