Does Cheddar flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 51 postcodes in Cheddar 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 655 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 Cheddar

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Cheddar watch Cheddar Yeo, Congresbury Yeo, River Axe.

• Cheddar Gorge
  Cheddar Yeo · 0.9 km away 0.28 m
  normal range · 40 min ago
• Iwood
  Congresbury Yeo · 9.9 km away 0.19 m
  normal range · 25 min ago
• Wookey
  River Axe · 9.9 km away 0.77 m
  above typical high · rising · 25 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Cheddar'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 Cheddar

2 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Cheddar. The EA has issued 272 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 24 Oct 2026.

• Rivers in North Somerset including Congresbury Yeo, Cheddar Yeo, Axe and tributaries
  81 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 4.1 km
• Rivers Brue, Sheppey, Glastonbury Millstream and North and South Drains
  191 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 9.7 km

Recorded floods near Cheddar

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Cheddar, 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
• 22 Nov 2012 — Winscombe_Nov 2012 Drainage
• 20 Nov 2012 — Nov 2012 Floods Main river
• 30 Apr 2012 — EA112_SW_Blagdon Drainage
• 2 Feb 1995 — EA112_Cheddar_Yeo_Axbridge Main river

Rainfall near Cheddar

Cheddar gets about 1,009 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 109 mm; driest May, 65 mm). That is close to the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.7 km from the place centre.

At-risk postcodes in Cheddar

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

High likelihood (27)

Medium likelihood (9)

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.