Does Guisborough flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 30 postcodes in Guisborough 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 303 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 Guisborough

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Guisborough watch River Leven, Ormesby Beck.

• Great Ayton
  River Leven · 6.9 km away 0.05 m
  normal range · steady · 29 min ago
• Easby
  River Leven · 7.4 km away 0.10 m
  normal range · steady · 29 min ago
• Middlesbrough Ormesby Hall
  Ormesby Beck · 9.0 km away No recent reading
  last reported 26 Oct 2026 02:45
• Stokesley Upstream
  River Leven · 9.8 km away 0.48 m
  normal range · steady · 29 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Guisborough'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 Guisborough

9 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Guisborough. The EA has issued 84 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 31 Aug 2026.

• Coastal Streams in Cleveland and Redcar including the Skelton Beck and Skinningrove Beck
  29 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2025 2.8 km
• Properties at Levenside, High Street, Park Square, School Lane, Leven Court, and properties at Little Ayton
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Nov 2016 6.8 km
• Properties at Low Green, Guisborough Road at Ayton Bridge, High Street near Ayton Bridge, West Terrace, Bridge Street, Hollygarth, Mill Terrace, Green Acre Close, Yarm Lane, Grange Mill and Mill Farm, Park Square area, and Grange Farm at Little Ayton
  no warning on record since 2006 7.6 km
• Properties near the Ormesby Beck, Spencer Beck, Middle Beck, Newham Beck, and Marton West Beck in Middlesbrough
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest May 2024 8.1 km
• Properties at the Ship Inn, seafront road, promenade and the car park
  no warning on record since 2006 8.3 km
• Middlesbrough Becks including the Marton West Beck, Newham Beck, Ormesby Beck, Middle Beck and Spencer Beck
  48 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Aug 2026 9.0 km
• Properties to the north west of Zetland Park, covering parts of Granville Terrace, Lord Street, Beech Avenue, Elm Road, Lime Road, Sycamore Road and The Crescent
  no warning on record since 2006 9.1 km
• Commercial and residential properties along Majuba Road, Newcomen Terrace, the Esplanade and parts of Granville Terrace
  no warning on record since 2006 9.6 km
• Properties at lower lying parts of Ormesby near the Middle and Spencer Becks, including High Street, and South Bank Road at Cargo Fleet
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest May 2024 9.9 km

Recorded floods near Guisborough

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

• 15 Feb 2020 — 2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis Ordinary watercourse
• 8 Feb 2020 — 2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Ciara Drainage
• 5 Dec 2013 — Tees Estuary, including Port Clarence Sea
• 17 Jul 2009 — Chapel Beck, Gusiborough Main river
• 1 Aug 2002 — Guisborough 2002 Drainage
• 1 Nov 2000 — Guisborough 2000 Drainage
• 30 Oct 2000 — Autumn 2000 Event

Rainfall near Guisborough

Guisborough gets about 715 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month June, 78 mm; driest March, 44 mm). That is 39% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.5 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (7.1 km away), recorded 3.4 mm in the last 24 hours and 25.4 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 29 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Guisborough

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

High likelihood (21)

Medium likelihood (2)

Low likelihood (6)

Very low likelihood (1)

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.