Does Bungay flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 24 postcodes in Bungay 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 145 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 Bungay

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Bungay watch River Waveney.

• Beccles Quay
  River Waveney · 8.3 km away 1.02 mAOD
  around typical high · just past its peak · 32 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Bungay'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 Bungay

1 Environment Agency flood warning area lies within 10 km of Bungay. The EA has issued 6 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 19 Feb 2024.

• The River Waveney from Bungay to Ellingham, including Earsham and Ditchingham
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2024 0.7 km

Recorded floods near Bungay

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Bungay, 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 2013 — 2013 Flood Outline Sea
• 14 Nov 1993 — 1993 Fluival Flood Outline Main river
• 31 Jan 1953 — 1953 Coast Flood Outline Norfolk Sea
• 31 Jan 1953 — 1953 Coast Flood Outline Suffolk Sea

Rainfall near Bungay

Bungay gets about 633 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 64 mm; driest April, 36 mm). That is 46% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.5 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (10.5 km away), recorded 2.7 mm in the last 24 hours and 43.8 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 32 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Bungay

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

High likelihood (8)

Medium likelihood (1)

Low likelihood (15)

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.