Does East Peckham flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 53 postcodes in East Peckham 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 751 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 East Peckham

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of East Peckham watch River Medway, Bourne Tributary Medway, River Beult, River Teise.

• Yalding Hampstead Lock Structure
  River Medway · 2.4 km away 1.71 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 53 min ago
• Hadlow
  Bourne Tributary Medway · 3.9 km away 0.31 m
  normal range · steady · 53 min ago
• Hartlake Bridge
  River Medway · 4.2 km away 0.61 m
  normal range · falling · 53 min ago
• Teston
  River Medway · 5.9 km away 0.40 m
  normal range · falling · 53 min ago
• Town Lock Structure
  River Medway · 7.9 km away 1.17 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 53 min ago
• East Farleigh Gate Upstream
  River Medway · 8.2 km away 1.29 m
  normal range · falling · 53 min ago
• Stilebridge
  River Beult · 8.9 km away 0.25 m
  normal range · 53 min ago
• Stonebridge
  River Teise · 9.9 km away 0.21 m
  normal range · steady · 53 min ago

Distances are from the middle of East Peckham'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 East Peckham

15 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of East Peckham. The EA has issued 175 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 6 Feb 2026.

• River Medway and The Bourne at East Peckham, including Little Mill and Hale Street
  5 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2020 0.2 km
• River Teise and Medway at Paddock Wood and Laddingford
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2020 2.3 km
• Little Venice Country Park and Marina, including low lying properties in Yalding around Yalding Bridge
  10 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 2.8 km
• Yalding including Benover and Congelow
  9 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 2.9 km
• Bourne at Hadlow and Golden Green
  no warning on record since 2006 3.0 km
• River Medway from Penshurst to Hampstead Lock at Yalding, including the Leigh Flood Storage area, the Ensfield Road, Tonbridge, Paddock Wood, the Hop Farm, East Peckham, Branbridges and Hale Street
  44 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 4.3 km
• River Bourne from Hadlow to East Peckham, including Golden Green and Little Mill
  58 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 4.5 km
• River Teise and Lesser Teise area from Horsmonden to Yalding, including Claygate, Collier Street and Laddingford
  22 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 5.1 km
• River Medway between Yalding and Maidstone, including Wateringbury, West Farleigh, Teston and East Farleigh
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 5.2 km
• River Beult from Stile Bridge to Hampstead Lock at Yalding, including Marden, Chainhurst, Collier Street and Benover
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 5.5 km
• River Beult and Lesser Teise at Collier Street, including Marden, Benover, Chainhurst and Haviker Street
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2020 5.9 km
• River Medway at Tonbridge and Hildenborough including Tudeley, Golden Green, Whetsted and Hartlake
  no warning on record since 2006 5.9 km

Recorded floods near East Peckham

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

• 23 Dec 2013 — 07302C200_Dec2013_Medway_Eden_Teise_Beult Main river
• 11 Oct 2000 — 07302C300_OCT2000_Beult Main river
• 11 Oct 2000 — 07302C200_OCT2000_Medway Main river
• 26 Dec 1979 — 07302C200_DEC1979_Middle Medway/Teise_Yalding Main river
• 14 Sep 1968 — 07302C200_Sept1968_Medway_Five Oak Green Main river
• 14 Sep 1968 — 07302C200_SEPT1968_Medway_Edenbridge_Yalding Main river
• 18 Nov 1963 — 07302C200_NOV1963_Medway_Tonbridge Main river
• 2 Nov 1960 — 07302C200_NOV1960_Medway_Edenbridge_Yalding Main river
• 2 Nov 1960 — 07302C200_NOV1960_Bourne_Dunk's Green Ordinary watercourse
• 2 Nov 1960 — 07302C200_NOV1960_Medway_Five Oak Green Drainage
• 2 Nov 1960 — 07302C200_NOV1960_ Medway_Yalding/Collier Street Main river
• 5 Sep 1958 — 07303C500_SEPT1958_EdenbridgetoEastPeckham Other

Rainfall near East Peckham

East Peckham gets about 659 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 76 mm; driest March, 42 mm). That is 43% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.4 km from the place centre.

At-risk postcodes in East Peckham

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

High likelihood (18)

Medium likelihood (4)

Low likelihood (26)

Very low likelihood (5)

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.