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Conditions are worth watching: heavy rain has fallen nearby (15.5 mm in the last 24 hours at Rainfall station). Keep an eye on updates if heavy rain continues.
Updated 2026-10-09 15:10:50 UTC · Official GOV.UK warnings · Flood preparation & help guide
Bootle is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, which had a population of 51,394 in 2011. It is part of the Liverpool City Region.
Towns and villages near Bootle with a page of their own: the homes in a flood risk area there, the nearest river gauges, and recorded floods.
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Place names: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The nearest watercourse on the river map is the River Mersey (tidal here), about 690 m from the middle of Bootle's gauges.
A gauge downstream shows water that has already passed this point; one upstream sees it first. Distances along the river are from the point on the River Mersey nearest the middle of Bootle's gauges. From Ordnance Survey’s river map (OS Open Rivers), which leaves out small streams, ditches and culverts, so a nearer one may exist. This describes where water goes on the map; it says nothing about flooding at any address. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.
Bootle is monitored by 1 Environment Agency river level station on the Tide, in Liverpool City Region. Water levels are updated every 15 minutes, providing real-time flood monitoring for the area.
The Tide is monitored by 1 station (Liverpool). Each station records water levels continuously, with data synced to FloodRadar every 5 minutes.
There are 8 Environment Agency flood warning areas within 10km of Bootle. When the EA issues a flood warning for any of these areas, it will appear on this page. These include: Areas at risk include Marine Point Leisure and Retail Park and properties on King's Parade and Marine Promenade.; Tue Brook at Clubmoor, areas around Lindsay Road, Abingdon Road, Daneville Road and Frampton Road; Woodside Business Park, Highfield South, Woodside Ferry Approach, Pacific Road and Birkenhead Wastewater Treatment Works; Seafront at Coastguards Station at Blundellesands and The Baths.
There are 34 storm overflows within 5km of Bootle. None of the 30 with a reporting monitor are currently discharging (4 have no live status right now). Enable "Sewage" on the map above to see their locations.
6 of them, nearest first, with their own page of live status and past discharges:
If flooding is forecast in Bootle, call Floodline on 0345 988 1188 for the latest information. Move valuables upstairs, turn off gas and electricity if safe to do so, and avoid walking or driving through flood water. Sign up for flood warnings on any station page above to receive email alerts when water levels rise. For emergency numbers, a preparation checklist and insurance guidance, see our flood help & preparation guide.
Bootle gets about 846 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 93 mm; driest April, 53 mm). That is 27% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. See the rain gauges →
A thirty-year average for the area, not a forecast and not a flood risk on its own. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.2 km away. Average rainfall: HadUK-Grid v1.3.2, Met Office. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of the town centre — most recent first. These are records of mapped extents, not a full list of floods. See them on the map →
Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.
Current verdict: Watch. Conditions are worth watching: heavy rain has fallen nearby (15.5 mm in the last 24 hours at Rainfall station). Keep an eye on updates if heavy rain continues.
Bootle has river level monitoring on Tide — 1 monitoring station in total.
Use the GOV.UK Check for Flooding service (check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk) or call Floodline on 0345 988 1188 (24 hours). You can also set up free FloodRadar email or browser alerts from any station page above.
Follow official advice: move valuables and vehicles to safety, never walk or drive through flood water, turn off gas and electricity if safe, and check on vulnerable neighbours. See our flood preparation guide at floodradar.co.uk/flood-help.
No recorded flood outline is mapped around the Bootle town centre means no flood was mapped here, which is not evidence none happened: the Environment Agency mapped only some floods, mapping effort rose sharply after about 2000, and surface-water flooding is largely absent from this record. See the flood history link below.
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