Does Dulverton flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 23 postcodes in Dulverton 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 220 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 Dulverton

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Dulverton watch Marsh Water, River Barle, River Exe, River Haddeo, River Batherm.

• Dulverton Town Marsh
  Marsh Water · 0.2 km away 0.68 m
  normal range · steady · 25 min ago
• Brushford
  River Barle · 2.5 km away 1.17 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 25 min ago
• Pixton
  River Exe · 2.9 km away 0.75 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 25 min ago
• Exebridge
  River Exe · 3.6 km away 0.95 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 25 min ago
• Wimbleball Footbridge
  River Haddeo · 5.0 km away 0.10 m
  normal range · steady · 2 h ago
• Wimbleball
  River Haddeo · 5.2 km away 0.11 m
  normal range · steady · 2 h ago
• Bampton Bridge
  River Batherm · 7.4 km away 0.26 m
  normal range · 25 min ago
• Upton
  River Haddeo · 7.4 km away No recent reading
  last reported 26 Oct 2026 10:15
• Upton Tributary
  River Haddeo · 7.5 km away No recent reading
  last reported 26 Oct 2026 10:15

Distances are from the middle of Dulverton'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 Dulverton

6 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Dulverton. The EA has issued 43 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 24 Oct 2026.

• Riverside properties and roads in Dulverton, including Bridge Street, Pound Walk, Kemps Way, High Street, Exmoor House Caravan Park, the B3222 and the B3223
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Dec 2012 0.1 km
• riverside properties and roads in Hartford and Bury, including the ford at Bury
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2012 3.2 km
• Riverside locations and roads in Winsford and Bridgetown, and other localised riverside properties and roads between Exford and Exebridge
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 3.6 km
• Properties around Bampton Bridge and on the B3277 Brook Street and Britton Street, including New Buildings, Manor Mill and Bridge Terrace
  16 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 7.3 km
• riverside locations and roads between Simonsbath and Brushford, including Simonsbath, Withypool, Newbridge, Northmoor Road, Brushford and the B3222 and B3223 at Dulverton
  15 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 8.6 km
• Riverside locations and roads between Exebridge and Tiverton, including Exebridge, Oakford Bridge, Chain Bridge, Cove, Washfield, vulnerable parts of Bolham, the B3226 at Black Cat and the A396 at Bolham
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2023 9.4 km

Recorded floods near Dulverton

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

• 22 Dec 2012 — Dulverton Flood December 2012 Main river
• 22 Dec 2012 — Exebridge Flood December 2012 Main river
• 30 Oct 2000 — Autumn 2000 Event - Exebridge Ordinary watercourse
• 18 Sep 1969 — River Batherm: Sept 1969 Main river
• 19 Dec 1965 — River Exe: Dec 1965 Main river
• 1 Dec 1965 — Exe Dec 1965 Event Main river
• 13 Dec 1964 — Dec-64 Main river
• 15 Aug 1952 — Hollam Brook: Dulverton Main river

Rainfall near Dulverton

Dulverton gets about 1,380 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month December, 172 mm; driest May, 80 mm). That is 19% wetter than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.3 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (6.3 km away), recorded 11.6 mm in the last 24 hours and 116.4 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 25 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Dulverton

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

High likelihood (7)

Medium likelihood (6)

Low likelihood (4)

Very low likelihood (6)

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.