Does Brent Knoll flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 27 postcodes in Brent Knoll 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 522 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 Brent Knoll

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Brent Knoll watch North Drain.

• North Drain
  North Drain · 9.0 km away 1.83 mAOD
  normal range · 25 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Brent Knoll'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 Brent Knoll

13 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Brent Knoll. The EA has issued 239 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 24 Oct 2026.

• Burnham-on-Sea Holiday Village, Maple Drive, Steart Avenue, Lynton Road, Adam Street, High Street, Victoria Street, Chichester Close and Seaview Road
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Jan 2014 3.3 km
• Coastline between South Esplanade and Berrow including Margaret Crescent, Pier Street, Abingdon Street, The Esplanade, College Street and Regent Street
  7 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2022 3.7 km
• Properties and Caravan Sites along Coast Road, South Road, Church Road and Warren Road in Brean and properties from Wick and Edingworth to the south to Loxton to the east and Bleadon to the north including Lympsham and Eastertown
  no warning on record since 2006 3.9 km
• Coastal areas at Dunster Beaches, Blue Anchor, Steart, Stolford and Brean
  113 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 4.3 km
• Hurn Lane to Brean Down including Red Road, Ham Road and Weston Road
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2020 5.7 km
• West Huntspill, Highbridge, Burnham-on-Sea and Berrow to the west to Mark in the east including East Huntspill, Edithmead, East Brent and Rooksbridge
  no warning on record since 2006 6.1 km
• Coastline between Berrow and Brean Down including seafront properties at Brean Down Cove and Brean Down Farm
  7 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2020 6.4 km
• Coastline between Stolford and the tidal River Parrett including properties around Ridgeway Lane and Gorpit Lane in Stolford and Church Farm, Dowells Farm, Coxs Farm and Manor Farm in Steart
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2020 7.5 km
• Coastline at Uphill including Slimeridge Farm Caravan Park area and the Boat Yard
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2020 7.5 km
• Coastline at Uphill from Links Road to Uphill Road and Grange Road to the south, the A370 to the east to Old Church Road to the north including Weston General Hospital
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2020 7.9 km
• Coastline between Stolford and the tidal River Parrett including Chapple Cottages in Stolford and low lying properties in Steart
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2020 8.3 km
• Rivers in North Somerset including Congresbury Yeo, Cheddar Yeo, Axe and tributaries
  81 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 8.9 km

Recorded floods near Brent Knoll

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Brent Knoll, 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 Extents_Winter 2013 to 2014 Main river
• 20 Nov 2012 — Nov 2012 Floods Main river
• 26 Mar 2009 — North Wessex Brue Parrett Yeo 2009 Main river
• 13 Dec 1981 — EA112_Coastal_Burnham_on_Sea_1981 Sea
• 13 Dec 1981 — EA112_Coastal_Alstone_1981 Sea
• 13 Dec 1981 — EA112_Parret_Tidal_Steart, Stockland_Combwich Sea
• 9 Jan 1936 — EA112_Coastal_Burnham_on_Sea_1936 Sea

Rainfall near Brent Knoll

Brent Knoll gets about 787 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 89 mm; driest March, 50 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), 1.6 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (8.6 km away), recorded 12.9 mm in the last 24 hours and 68.8 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 1 h ago).

At-risk postcodes in Brent Knoll

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

High likelihood (4)

Medium likelihood (4)

Low likelihood (19)

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.