Does Faversham flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 66 postcodes in Faversham 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 693 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.

Flood warning areas near Faversham

3 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Faversham. The EA has issued 124 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 26 Oct 2026.

• Areas at risk of coastal flooding from Kemsley to Seasalter, including Sittingbourne, Conyer and Faversham
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2022 3.4 km
• Areas at risk of coastal flooding on the Isle of Sheppey and North Kent Coast from Kemsley to Seasalter, including Sheerness, Minster, Queenborough, Leysdown on Sea, Sittingbourne and Faversham
  121 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 6.7 km
• Areas at risk of coastal flooding from Warden Bay to Hamlet of Shellness, including Warden, Bay View and Leysdown on Sea
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Sep 2019 8.4 km

Recorded floods near Faversham

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Faversham, 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 Feb 2001 — 07309A200FEO_Middle_Stour Main river
• 5 Nov 2000 — 07309A200_NOV2000_Middle_Stour Main river
• 11 Jan 1978 — 07308B100_JAN1978_Stour Tidal_Leysdown to Shell Ne Sea
• 11 Jan 1978 — 07308B100_JAN1978_Stour_Ham Marshes Sea
• 11 Jan 1978 — 07308B100_JAN1978_Stour Tidal_Conyer to Oare Sea
• 1 Feb 1953 — 07308B100_FEB1953_The Swale_Seasalter Sea
• 1 Feb 1953 — 07307C100_FEB1953_Medway Estuary_Isle of Sheppey Sea
• 1 Feb 1953 — 07301C100_FEB1953_Medway Estuary_Isle of Sheppey Sea

Rainfall near Faversham

Faversham gets about 628 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 71 mm; driest March, 39 mm). That is 46% 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 (1.3 km away), recorded 1.5 mm in the last 24 hours (latest reading 2 h ago).

At-risk postcodes in Faversham

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

High likelihood (31)

Medium likelihood (8)

Low likelihood (27)

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.