Does Frome flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 48 postcodes in Frome 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 357 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 Frome

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Frome watch Somerset Frome, Mells River, Nunney Brook, Lambrok Stream.

• Frome Rodden
  Somerset Frome · 0.8 km away 0.51 m
  normal range · 37 min ago
• Vallis
  Mells River · 2.2 km away 0.29 m
  normal range · 52 min ago
• Holwell
  Nunney Brook · 6.0 km away 0.82 m
  normal range · 37 min ago
• Tellisford
  Somerset Frome · 8.4 km away 1.08 m
  normal range · falling · 52 min ago
• Trowbridge Southwick
  Lambrok Stream · 9.1 km away 0.17 m
  normal range · 52 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Frome'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 Frome

7 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Frome. The EA has issued 99 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 24 Oct 2026.

• Willow Vale, King Street, Saxonvale, Market Place, The Bridge, Bridge Street, Westway, Scott Road, Justice Lane, Welshmill Road and Welshmill Lane
  no warning on record since 2006 0.2 km
• River Frome and Mells, and the Whatley and Nunney Brooks and tributaries
  44 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 2.1 km
• Witham Friary to Wallbridge including Bullsbridge Farm, Blatchbridge Mill, Feltham Bridge, Wallbridge Mills, Harris Close, Tucker Close, Waters Edge, River Walk, Ellworthy Court and the A362 at Wallbridge
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2024 4.1 km
• Nunney Brook including Wanstrow, Holwell, Nunney and Egford and the Sharpshaw Watercourse
  7 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2024 5.0 km
• River Mells including Edford, Ham Bridge, Coleford, Lower Vobster, Mells, Great Elm and Spring Gardens and the Whatley Brook
  7 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2024 5.0 km
• Spring Gardens to Freshford including Oldford, Lullington Weir, Beckington Mill, Eden Vale Farm, Shawford, Rode, Stowford Mill, Farleigh Hungerford, Iford Bridge and Friary
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 6.6 km
• River Biss and tributaries between Westbury and Trowbridge
  33 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 9.7 km

Recorded floods near Frome

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

• 30 Mar 2015 — This represents flooding in the area in 2015
• 4 Jan 2014 — Lullington_Winter 2013 to 2014 Main river
• 24 Dec 2013 — Mells_Winter 2013 to 2014 Main river
• 10 Feb 2009 — North Wessex Feb 2009 Main river
• 10 Feb 2009 — EA112_Rodden_Brook_Rodden_Mill_2009 Main river
• 10 Feb 2009 — EA112_Som_Frome_Wallbridge_Frome_2009 Main river
• 13 Dec 2008 — EA112_Som_Frome_Wallbridge_Frome Main river
• 28 Jan 1986 — EA112_Frome_Lullington Main river
• 31 Jan 1983 — EA112_Som_Frome_Eden Vale_Frome Main river
• 30 May 1979 — EA112_Som_Frome_Shawford_Frome_1979 Main river
• 30 Apr 1979 — EA112_Mells river_SW_Great Elm Drainage
• 6 Mar 1978 — This represents flooding in the area in 1978 Drainage

…and 12 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Frome

Frome gets about 900 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 101 mm; driest June, 59 mm). That is 23% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.0 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (0.6 km away), recorded 1.2 mm in the last 24 hours and 100.2 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 37 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Frome

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

High likelihood (15)

Medium likelihood (12)

Low likelihood (21)

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.