Does Cannock flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 29 postcodes in Cannock 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 251 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 Cannock

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Cannock watch Ridings Brook, Saredon Brook, River Penk.

• Cannock
  Ridings Brook · 0.2 km away 0.37 m
  normal range · falling · 40 min ago
• Deepmore Farm
  Saredon Brook · 5.9 km away 0.66 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 25 min ago
• Penkridge Structure
  River Penk · 7.9 km away 0.46 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 40 min ago
• Coven
  River Penk · 8.4 km away 0.82 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 25 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Cannock'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 Cannock

11 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Cannock. The EA has issued 77 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 23 Oct 2026.

• Ridings Brook at Rumer Hill, Cannock including parts of Rumer Hill Road, Walsall Road and St Johns Road
  no warning on record since 2006 0.2 km
• Ridings Brook at Bridgetown, Cannock including parts of Walsall Road and Longford Industrial Estate
  no warning on record since 2006 1.5 km
• Wash Brook and Wyrley Brook at Churchbridge from Station Road to Wyrley Brook Retail Park
  no warning on record since 2006 1.8 km
• Saredon Brook at Wedges Mills, Cannock
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Sep 2024 2.7 km
• Saredon Brook at Standeford near Coven
  32 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 7.5 km
• River Penk at Penkridge including Stone Cross, Pinfold Lane, Crown Bridge, Mill Street and Stanford Close
  14 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2024 7.8 km
• River Penk at Coven
  7 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2024 8.4 km
• River Penk at Congreve and Water Eaton including Engleton Mill Lane at Brewood
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2024 8.6 km
• Waterhead Brook at Bushbury, Wolverhampton from Northycote Lane to Stafford Road
  5 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 8.7 km
• Ford Brook at Rushall from Coronation Road to Cartbridge Lane South
  no warning on record since 2006 8.9 km
• River Penk at Somerford
  12 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2024 9.0 km

Recorded floods near Cannock

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

• 1 Feb 1976 — UT/DC/043 - Saredon Brook Feb Main river

Rainfall near Cannock

Cannock gets about 749 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 74 mm; driest March, 50 mm). That is 36% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.4 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (6.1 km away), recorded 4.6 mm in the last 24 hours and 59.0 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 40 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Cannock

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

High likelihood (5)

Medium likelihood (4)

Low likelihood (3)

Very low likelihood (17)

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.