Does Donington flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 29 postcodes in Donington 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 493 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 Donington

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Donington watch South Forty Foot Drain, River Glen, Pointon Lode.

• Donington Bridge
  South Forty Foot Drain · 3.4 km away 0.69 m
  normal range · 43 min ago
• Dowsby Fen
  South Forty Foot Drain · 7.5 km away 0.70 m
  normal range · 33 min ago
• Swaton
  South Forty Foot Drain · 8.0 km away 0.23 m
  normal range · steady · 33 min ago
• Billingborough Ousemere
  South Forty Foot Drain · 9.1 km away 0.05 m
  normal range · steady · 33 min ago
• Surfleet Sluice Structure
  River Glen · 9.3 km away 0.84 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 33 min ago
• Pointon Lode
  Pointon Lode · 9.4 km away 0.00 mAOD
  normal range · steady · 33 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Donington'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 Donington

10 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Donington. The EA has issued 147 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 15 Feb 2026.

• Area at risk from the furthest extent of tidal flooding from Holland Fen to Northgate, including Swineshead, Kirton, Donington and Gosberton
  no warning on record since 2006 1.3 km
• Isolated properties and villages in wider low lying areas east of the South Forty Foot Drain and minor tributaries from Bourne to Boston
  26 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 3.9 km
• Isolated properties and villages east South Forty Foot and tributaries including property around Baker's Bridge, West Low Grounds, Bicker Fen, Surfleet Fen, Pinchbeck North Fen, Northgate and Bourne North Fen
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 4.3 km
• Isolated properties and villages west South Forty Foot from Dyke Fen upstream, via Caswell's Bridge to Donington High Bridge on Horbling Fen downstream
  10 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 5.5 km
• Isolated properties and villages in low lying areas west of the South Forty Foot Drain from north Heckington to Bourne, including property at Northbeck, Scredlington, Spanby, Swaton, Osbournby, Haconby and Spanby
  56 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 5.9 km
• West End and Swaton Lane areas of Swaton
  12 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 8.1 km
• Areas near Billingborough Ousemere Lode in Billingborough and Horbling New Cut in Horbling
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 8.2 km
• Tidal flooding from the Left Bank of the River Welland in Surfleet Seas End, Sutterton Dowdyke and Fosdyke
  no warning on record since 2006 8.4 km
• River Glen at Surfleet Reservoir during high tide periods
  24 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 9.3 km
• Far extent of tidal flooding from the Wash between Gibraltar point and Admiralty Point and the Tidal River Witham, the Tidal River Welland and the Tidal River Nene
  12 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2007 9.9 km

Recorded floods near Donington

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

• 4 Jan 2025 — LNA_2025_01_Fluvial_Helpringham Main river
• 2 Jan 2024 — LNA_2024_01_Fluvial_Helpringham Eau Main river
• 20 Oct 2023 — LNA_2023_10_Fluvial_Helpringham Eau Main river

Rainfall near Donington

Donington gets about 576 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month July, 60 mm; driest March, 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), 2.8 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (11.5 km away), recorded 3.2 mm in the last 24 hours and 41.2 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 33 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Donington

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

Medium likelihood (26)

Low likelihood (3)

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.