Does Crewe flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 33 postcodes in Crewe 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 1,339 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 Crewe

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Crewe watch Valley Brook, River Wheelock, River Weaver.

• Marshfield Bridge
  Valley Brook · 3.8 km away 0.32 m
  normal range · falling · 38 min ago
• Wheelock Crewe Road
  River Wheelock · 5.7 km away 0.59 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 38 min ago
• Shrewbridge
  River Weaver · 7.1 km away 0.54 m
  normal range · steady · 38 min ago
• Ashbrook
  River Weaver · 9.3 km away 0.64 m
  normal range · rising · 38 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Crewe'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 Crewe

6 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Crewe. The EA has issued 107 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 18 Dec 2025.

• Properties along Crewe Road, Chapel Street and Cottons Lane including Wheelock Methodist Church
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Jan 2024 5.8 km
• Properties on Shrewbridge Road, Riverside, Welsh Row and some property on Manor Road North
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Jan 2021 6.5 km
• Riverside land from Beam Bridge to the railway and properties on First Wood Street, Second Wood Street, Welsh Row, Barker Street, Holland Walk and Weaver Bank
  11 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 6.6 km
• The area at risk includes Shrewbridge Lodge
  31 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 7.3 km
• Areas at risk include properties in and access to Lakeside View
  17 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 7.3 km
• The Weaver Catchment includes the Rivers Weaver, Ducklow and Wheelock and their tributaries
  46 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2025 9.9 km

Recorded floods near Crewe

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

• 26 Oct 2019 — Weelcol Main river
• 14 May 2001 — FOWB
• 30 Oct 2000 — WHEE Main river
• 23 Oct 1998 — VALL
• 23 Oct 1998 — ARCL
• 24 Dec 1997 — WIST
• 23 Apr 1971 — WEAV

Rainfall near Crewe

Crewe gets about 732 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 77 mm; driest March, 45 mm). That is 37% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.9 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (5.2 km away), recorded 5.1 mm in the last 24 hours and 37.1 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 38 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Crewe

Every postcode Ordnance Survey places in Crewe 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 (4)

Low likelihood (21)

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.