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No official flood warning is active nearby and the closest river stations are within normal ranges.
Updated 2026-10-09 18:45:30 UTC · Official GOV.UK warnings · Flood preparation & help guide
Earith is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Lying approximately 10 miles (16 km) east of Huntingdon, Earith is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England. At Earith, two artificial diversion channels of the River Great Ouse, the Old Bedford River and the New Bedford River, leave the river on a course to Denver Sluice near Downham Market, where they rejoin the Great Ouse in its tidal part. At the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 1,677, reducing to 1,606 at the 2011 Census.
Towns and villages near Earith with a page of their own: the homes in a flood risk area there, the nearest river gauges, and recorded floods.
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Place names: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The nearest watercourse on the river map is the River Great Ouse (tidal here), about 60 m from the middle of Earith's gauges. It flows into Hundred Foot Drain (New Bedford River) about 450 m downstream.
A gauge downstream shows water that has already passed this point; one upstream sees it first. Distances along the river are from the point on the River Great Ouse nearest the middle of Earith's gauges. From Ordnance Survey’s river map (OS Open Rivers), which leaves out small streams, ditches and culverts, so a nearer one may exist. This describes where water goes on the map; it says nothing about flooding at any address. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.
Earith is monitored by 1 Environment Agency river level station on the River Great Ouse, in Cambridgeshire. Water levels are updated every 15 minutes, providing real-time flood monitoring for the area.
The River Great Ouse is monitored by 1 station (Earith). Each station records water levels continuously, with data synced to FloodRadar every 5 minutes.
There are 8 Environment Agency flood warning areas within 10km of Earith. When the EA issues a flood warning for any of these areas, it will appear on this page. These include: Overcote Road Horseware, Fen End and Hitherford in Over, Needingworth Road in Bluntisham and High Street, Marina Drive, Kingfisher Court, The Waterhaven and Earith Bridge in Earith; Hollywell Front in Hollywell, Overcote Lane in Needingworth and Hale Road, Taylors Lane, Blackhorse Lane, Station Road, Over Road, High Street, Chantry Close, Moat Way, Whitegate Close, Thistle Green, Greenside Close and Cow Fen Drove in Swavesey; Cottenham, Haddenham, Sutton, Wilingham, Stretham, Landbeach, Wilburton, Waterbeach, Over, Hollywell-cum-Needingworth; Harding Way, Nursery Gardens, Russet Close, Bramley Road, Elsworth Close, Rookery Close, Sheepfold, Great Fathing Close, Little Fathing Close, Fathing Lane, Brookway, Willow Way, Abbey Retail Park, Parson Green and Parsons Drove.
There are 4 storm overflows within 5km of Earith. None of the 3 with a reporting monitor are currently discharging (1 has no live status right now). Enable "Sewage" on the map above to see their locations.
Each has its own page of live status and past discharges:
If flooding is forecast in Earith, call Floodline on 0345 988 1188 for the latest information. Move valuables upstairs, turn off gas and electricity if safe to do so, and avoid walking or driving through flood water. Sign up for flood warnings on any station page above to receive email alerts when water levels rise. For emergency numbers, a preparation checklist and insurance guidance, see our flood help & preparation guide.
Earith gets about 565 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 60 mm; driest March, 34 mm). That is 51% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. See the rain gauges →
A thirty-year average for the area, not a forecast and not a flood risk on its own. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.7 km away. Average rainfall: HadUK-Grid v1.3.2, Met Office. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of the town centre — most recent first. These are records of mapped extents, not a full list of floods. See them on the map →
Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.
Current verdict: Normal. No official flood warning is active nearby and the closest river stations are within normal ranges.
Earith has river level monitoring on River Great Ouse — 1 monitoring station in total.
Use the GOV.UK Check for Flooding service (check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk) or call Floodline on 0345 988 1188 (24 hours). You can also set up free FloodRadar email or browser alerts from any station page above.
Follow official advice: move valuables and vehicles to safety, never walk or drive through flood water, turn off gas and electricity if safe, and check on vulnerable neighbours. See our flood preparation guide at floodradar.co.uk/flood-help.
Yes — the Environment Agency's Recorded Flood Outlines dataset shows 5 recorded flood extents around the town centre since 1703, most recently in 1947. That is a count of mapped extents, not of separate floods. Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded. See the flood history link below.
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