Does Fernwood flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 26 postcodes in Fernwood 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 379 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 Fernwood

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Fernwood watch Lowfield Drain, River Witham, River Trent, River Devon.

• Newark Balderton
  Lowfield Drain · 1.0 km away 0.50 m
  normal range · 29 min ago
• Claypole
  River Witham · 3.2 km away 0.16 m
  normal range · 29 min ago
• Farndon
  River Trent · 6.0 km away 0.59 m
  normal range · steady · 29 min ago
• Wensor Bridge, Shelton
  River Devon · 6.6 km away 0.72 m
  normal range · falling · 29 min ago
• Hougham
  River Witham · 9.0 km away 0.81 m
  normal range · steady · 29 min ago
• North Muskham
  River Trent · 9.5 km away 1.28 m
  normal range · steady · 29 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Fernwood'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 Fernwood

19 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Fernwood. The EA has issued 143 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 2 Mar 2026.

• Properties near Lowfield Drain and Middle Beck at Balderton
  no warning on record since 2006 2.8 km
• River Trent at Newark including Winthorpe
  no warning on record since 2006 4.2 km
• Isolated properties and villages near the River Witham from Hougham to Claypole including Westborough, Long Bennington and Claypole
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 4.4 km
• River Trent at Newark for riverside properties including Mather Road, Brewer's Wharf and Water Lane
  9 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 4.5 km
• River Trent at Newark Tolney Lane and Riverside Marinas including Tolney Lane Caravan Park
  15 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 4.9 km
• River Trent at Newark Cattle Market including Kelham Road, Cullen Close, Sandhills Park and Sandhills Close
  no warning on record since 2006 4.9 km
• Rivers Trent and Devon at Farndon including properties around Farndon and Fosse Roads
  no warning on record since 2006 5.2 km
• River Trent at Newark Sugar Factory and Kelham Bridge including the A616 Great North Road
  11 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 6.1 km
• Rivers Trent and Devon at Farndon riverside properties including Dorner Avenue, Wyke Lane and Marsh Lane
  13 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 6.5 km
• River Trent at Fiskerton for Fiskerton Mill including Rolleston Fields, Gorse and Nurseries
  11 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 7.3 km
• River Trent at South Muskham and Little Carlton including Slake Lane, Great North Road, Kelham Lane, Crow Lane and Ollerton Road
  no warning on record since 2006 7.3 km
• River Trent at Averham, Staythorpe and Kelham including the Staythorpe Power Station
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2012 7.4 km

Recorded floods near Fernwood

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

• 5 Jan 2025 — Newark January 2025 Main river
• 2 Jan 2024 — Newark on Trent 2024 Main river
• 2 Jan 2024 — Hawton January 2024 Main river
• 2 Jan 2024 — Farndon January 2024 Main river
• 2 Jan 2024 — LNA_2024_01_Fluvial_Upper River Witham Main river
• 20 Oct 2023 — LNA_2023_10_Fluvial_Upper River Witham Ordinary watercourse
• 16 Feb 2020 — LNA_2020_02_River Witham Main river
• 10 Nov 2000 — Lower Trent - 10 Nov 2000 Main river
• 8 Nov 2000 — Trent 8th November 2000 Main river
• 31 Oct 2000 — Fluvial Trent October 2000 Main river
• 1 Jan 1979 — 19790101 Main river
• 29 Dec 1978 — River Devon December 1978 Main river

…and 6 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Fernwood

Fernwood gets about 613 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month June, 63 mm; driest March, 34 mm). That is 47% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.6 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (7.6 km away), recorded 0.2 mm in the last 24 hours and 27.0 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 29 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Fernwood

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

High likelihood (10)

Medium likelihood (10)

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.