Does Blackpool flood?

Flood warnings in force near Blackpool

• Flood alert — Coast from Fleetwood to Blackpool
  Flooding is possible from 22:00 to Midnight on Monday 26 October 2026 4.3 km
• Flood alert — Wyre estuary from Fleetwood and Knott End to Little Eccleston
  Flooding is possible from 22:00 to Midnight on Monday 26 October 4.8 km

From the Environment Agency (England). Always check the GOV.UK Check for Flooding service or call Floodline on 0345 988 1188.

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

Ordnance Survey places 443 postcodes in Blackpool 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 7,456 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 Blackpool

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Blackpool watch Horsebridge Dyke, Lune And Wyre.

• Poulton Cottam Hall Field Grid
  Horsebridge Dyke · 1.9 km away 0.25 m
  normal range · 30 min ago
• Fleetwood Tidal
  Lune And Wyre · 8.9 km away 0.80 m
  rises and falls with the tide · 30 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Blackpool'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 Blackpool

18 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Blackpool. The EA has issued 472 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 26 Oct 2026.

• Low lying land and property on Adlington Avenue and Cottam Hall playing fields
  no warning on record since 2006 2.0 km
• The Rowans, Kingfisher Drive, Dale Dyke, Winscar Walk, Adlington Ave, Chester Ave and Rutland Ave. Land and properties off Berry's Ln, Carleton Gate, Shirley Heights, The Downs, Minstrel Walk, The Oaks and Furlong Ln
  no warning on record since 2006 2.3 km
• Promenade South, Anchorsholme and Rossall Beach
  no warning on record since 2006 3.0 km
• Breck Drive and Myrtle Avenue
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Jan 2018 3.3 km
• Nestleton, Underbank Road, Aylesbury House and Silcock's Cottages, Trunnah, Stanah, Millfield Science and Performing Arts College and Marsh Farm
  no warning on record since 2006 3.6 km
• Skippool Bridge, Breck Road and Bridge House
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2018 3.7 km
• Princes Way, Promenade North and Jubilee Gardens
  no warning on record since 2006 3.8 km
• Fleetwood, Larkholme, Broadwater, Cleveleys, Rossall Beach, Anchorsholme, Blackpool and Revoe
  95 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 4.3 km
• Nestleton, Underbank Road, Aylesbury House and Silcock's Cottages
  23 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2024 4.5 km
• Revoe and the A5099
  no warning on record since 2006 4.7 km
• Tiger's Tail, Wyre Dock, Burrow's Marsh, Burn Naze, Thornton, Trunnah, Stanah, Poulton-le-Fylde, Skippool, Hambleton, Cold Row, Little Singleton, Little Eccleston and Crow Woods
  315 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 4.8 km
• New South Promenade, Revoe, Promenade, North Pier, Central Pier and South Pier
  11 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2024 4.9 km

Recorded floods near Blackpool

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Blackpool, 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 Feb 2020 — Queen Victoria Road Drainage
• 9 Feb 2020 — Tilsdsley Road Drainage
• 23 Nov 2017 — 23/11/2017 Ordinary watercourse
• 22 Nov 2017 — Broadpool Lane, Kiln Lane, Sherbourne Road
• 22 Nov 2017 — Arundel Drive
• 22 Nov 2017 — Blackpool Road
• 22 Nov 2017 — Highcross Road
• 22 Nov 2017 — Poulton Road
• 22 Nov 2017 — Eddleston Close
• 22 Nov 2017 — Cheviot Avenue
• 22 Nov 2017 — Anchorsholme Lane, Sevenoaks Drive
• 22 Nov 2017 — Ashdale Grove

…and 50 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Blackpool

Blackpool gets about 958 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 111 mm; driest April, 57 mm). That is 18% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.2 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (6.7 km away), recorded 4.9 mm in the last 24 hours and 62.4 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 30 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Blackpool

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

High likelihood (150)

Medium likelihood (54)

Low likelihood (176)

Very low likelihood (63)

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.