Does Cottingham flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 117 postcodes in Cottingham 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 1,302 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 Cottingham

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Cottingham watch Broadlane Beck, Setting Dyke, Western Drain, River Hull, Beverley and Barmston Drain, Fleet Drain, Holderness Drain.

• Cottingham Hallgate
  Broadlane Beck · 0.6 km away 0.08 m
  normal range · steady · 35 min ago
• North Hull Birdsall Avenue
  Setting Dyke · 2.3 km away 0.14 m
  normal range · steady · 50 min ago
• North Hull National Avenue
  Setting Dyke · 3.0 km away 0.28 m
  normal range · steady · 50 min ago
• Hessle Western Drain
  Western Drain · 5.5 km away 0.05 m
  normal range · steady · 50 min ago
• Stoneferry Bridge Tidal
  River Hull · 5.5 km away 0.48 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 50 min ago
• Hull Hessle Astral Close
  Western Drain · 5.6 km away 0.36 m
  normal range · rising · 50 min ago
• Hull High Flaggs, Lincoln Street
  River Hull · 6.1 km away Sensor under review
  reading not shown
• Beverley Waterside Pumping Station Tidal Structure
  Beverley and Barmston Drain · 6.5 km away -0.44 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 50 min ago
• Beverley Shipyard Tidal
  River Hull · 6.9 km away 1.85 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 50 min ago
• Hull Barrier Victoria Pier Tidal Structure
  River Hull · 7.0 km away -0.72 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 35 min ago
• Hessle Tidal Structure
  Fleet Drain · 7.1 km away 0.86 m
  rises and falls with the tide · 35 min ago
• Bransholme Great Culvert Pumping Station Tidal Structure
  Holderness Drain · 7.2 km away -2.40 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 35 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Cottingham'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 Cottingham

47 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Cottingham. The EA has issued 282 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 30 Aug 2026.

• Properties around King St, Northgate, Dunswell Rd, and North Moor Ln
  11 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2023 0.6 km
• Properties along Eppleworth Rd, Green Lane, St Margaret's Ave, Dene Rd, West End Rd, Crescent St
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Oct 2023 1.1 km
• Area around Priory Road
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2025 2.0 km
• Properties in the Orchard Park, New Village and North Moor areas
  no warning on record since 2006 2.2 km
• Properties in the northern area of Orchard Park
  no warning on record since 2006 2.2 km
• Areas around the University, New Village and North Moor
  no warning on record since 2006 2.3 km
• Properties along County Rd North, Priory Rd, Shropshire Close, Hotham Rd, Danube Rd, Coronation Rd
  no warning on record since 2006 2.4 km
• Properties in the Deringham and Boothferry areas
  no warning on record since 2006 3.1 km
• Properties along Dunswell Lane in Dunswell and around Manor Farm
  no warning on record since 2006 3.3 km
• Properties in the Bricknell, Newland and Avenue areas
  no warning on record since 2006 3.5 km
• Properties along the A1174 in Dunswell and Thearne
  no warning on record since 2006 3.5 km
• The northern areas of the city of Hull on the west bank of the River Hull
  no warning on record since 2006 3.6 km

Recorded floods near Cottingham

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

• 15 Feb 2020 — 2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis Drainage
• 8 Feb 2020 — 2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Ciara Main river
• 7 Nov 2019 — 2019 November Flood Incident Main river
• 31 Mar 2018 — 2018 Apr-River Hull. Froddingham (Old Howe) Breach Main river
• 5 Dec 2013 — East Coast Tidal Event 5th December 2013 Main river
• 25 Jun 2007 — June 2007 Flood Event (Hull and East Riding) River
• 15 Jun 2007 — 123JUN2007SW0003 Other
• 15 Jun 2007 — June 2007 Surface Water Flooding Yorkshire Other
• 28 Sep 1969 — 123_Sept_1969_KingstonUponHull Sea
• 21 Jan 1969 — 123 January 1969 - R.Hull Main river

Rainfall near Cottingham

Cottingham gets about 708 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 74 mm; driest February, 47 mm). That is 39% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.2 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (7.2 km away), recorded 2.7 mm in the last 24 hours and 30.8 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 50 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Cottingham

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

High likelihood (3)

Medium likelihood (1)

Low likelihood (48)

Very low likelihood (65)

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.