Does Cowbit flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 28 postcodes in Cowbit 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 486 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.

Flood warning areas near Cowbit

3 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Cowbit. The EA has issued 37 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 3 Mar 2026.

• Eastern areas of Spalding on the right bank of the river Welland and surrounding areas, including Deeping St Nicholas, Crowland, Cowbit, Moulton and Whaplode
  no warning on record since 2006 2.3 km
• Western areas of Spalding on the left bank of the River Welland and areas around Pinchbeck, including Crossgate, Pode Hole and Little London
  no warning on record since 2006 6.9 km
• Lower Welland and other watercourses from Stamford to Spalding, including Market Deeping and Spalding
  37 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2026 7.2 km

Recorded floods near Cowbit

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Cowbit, 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 Apr 1998 — LNA_1998_April_River Welland Main river
• 16 Mar 1947 — LNA_1947_March_River Welland_Crowland Main river

Rainfall near Cowbit

Cowbit gets about 578 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month August, 61 mm; driest February, 33 mm). That is 50% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.2 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (7.3 km away), recorded 3.2 mm in the last 24 hours and 41.2 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 27 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Cowbit

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

Medium likelihood (16)

Low likelihood (12)

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.