Does Fleet Hargate flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 32 postcodes in Fleet Hargate 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 572 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 Fleet Hargate

6 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Fleet Hargate. The EA has issued 11 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 30 Mar 2025.

• Holbeach, Fleet, Gedney and surrounding areas including Holbeach St Johns and Sutton St Edmund
  no warning on record since 2006 5.0 km
• Wash Frontage and the left bank of the Tidal River Nene from Wisbech to Holbeach St Matthew, including Tydd Gote and Gedney Drove End
  no warning on record since 2006 5.7 km
• Areas near the tidal River Welland, tidal River Nene, and the Wash frontage from Fossdyke Wash to Terrington Marsh
  9 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2025 6.1 km
• Sutton Bridge including West Bank, East Bank, Bridge Road, New Road, Garners Lane and Little Sutton
  no warning on record since 2006 8.9 km
• Tidal flooding from the Right Bank of the River Welland in parts of Spalding, Low Fulney and Moulton Common
  no warning on record since 2006 9.3 km
• Fulney to Fosdyke Bridge including Wykeham, Wragg Marsh, Spalding Marsh, Surfleet Marsh and Moutlon Marsh
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2013 9.8 km

Recorded floods near Fleet Hargate

None mapped within ~5 km of Fleet Hargate.

No recorded outline within ~5 km of Fleet Hargate means no flood was mapped here, which is not evidence none happened: the Environment Agency mapped only some floods, mapping effort rose sharply after about 2000, and surface-water flooding is largely absent from this record. Open the recorded-floods map →

Rainfall near Fleet Hargate

Fleet Hargate gets about 621 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month August, 63 mm; driest March, 38 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), 3.0 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (3.7 km away), recorded 3.4 mm in the last 24 hours and 40.8 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 32 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Fleet Hargate

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

Low likelihood (32)

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.