Does East Tilbury flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 37 postcodes in East Tilbury 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 1,360 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 Tilbury

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of East Tilbury watch Thames Tideway.

• Tilbury Tidal
  Thames Tideway · 6.6 km away -2.62 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 33 min ago

Distances are from the middle of East Tilbury'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 Tilbury

10 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of East Tilbury. The EA has issued 335 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 26 Oct 2026.

• The Essex coast at Coalhouse Fort and surrounding marshland at East Tilbury
  40 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Apr 2024 2.1 km
• The Essex coast at Coalhouse Fort and the surrounding area
  86 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 2.1 km
• Areas at risk of tidal flooding on seaward side of tidal defences from Greenhithe to Denton, including Northfleet and Gravesend
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2022 4.8 km
• The Essex coast from Fobbing to Purfleet-on-Thames, including Tilbury, Grays and the Dartford Crossing
  38 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2025 5.8 km
• Areas at risk of tidal flooding from Dartford to Allhallows, including Crayford, Greenhithe, Northfleet, Gravesend and the North Kent Marshes
  89 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 6.0 km
• Areas at risk of tidal flooding in Gravesend and Northfleet, including Swanscombe
  no warning on record since 2006 6.4 km
• Shellhaven to Tilbury, including Mucking and Linford
  no warning on record since 2006 6.5 km
• Areas at risk of tidal flooding in the North Kent Marshes between Shorne Marsh and Allhallows, including Lower Higham and Cliffe
  no warning on record since 2006 7.4 km
• The Mardyke to the River Thames at Purfleet-on-Thames
  79 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 9.1 km
• Grays to Purfleet-on-Thames, from Dock Road, in Grays, to London Road, in Purfleet-on-Thames
  no warning on record since 2006 9.6 km

Recorded floods near East Tilbury

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

• 11 Jan 1978 — 073DAE900_JAN1978_DartfordCreek_EgyptBay Sea
• 14 Sep 1968 — 07337E200_SEPT1968_Darent_Dartford Main river
• 12 Jan 1968 — 1968 September Flood Outline Main river
• 1 Jun 1958 — 1958 Flood Outline Other
• 1 Feb 1953 — 07301E900/C100_FEB1953_Isle of Grain Sea
• 31 Jan 1953 — 1953 Coast Flood Outline Essex Sea
• 31 Jan 1953 — 07301E900_FEB1953_Dartford Creek_Denton Sea

Rainfall near East Tilbury

East Tilbury gets about 560 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 60 mm; driest March, 34 mm). That is 52% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.3 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (8.7 km away), recorded 2.6 mm in the last 24 hours and 35.8 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 33 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in East Tilbury

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

High likelihood (1)

Very low likelihood (36)

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.