Does Hartlepool flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 139 postcodes in Hartlepool 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 1,384 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 Hartlepool

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Hartlepool watch Burn Valley Beck, Cowbridge Beck, River Tees.

• Hartlepool Burn Valley Gardens
  Burn Valley Beck · 1.5 km away 0.01 m
  normal range · steady · 29 min ago
• Hartlepool Valley Drive Structure
  Burn Valley Beck · 3.3 km away 0.02 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 29 min ago
• Billingham Pennington Close
  Cowbridge Beck · 9.6 km away 0.05 m
  normal range · 29 min ago
• Tees Dock Tidal
  River Tees · 9.9 km away -0.63 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 29 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Hartlepool'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 Hartlepool

7 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Hartlepool. The EA has issued 58 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 5 Feb 2026.

• Properties at West Harbour and Old Town, including Queen Street, the Yacht Club, Ensign Court and Chandlers Close
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2013 0.7 km
• Properties at Victoria Harbour, including Town Wall, Southgate, Victoria Street, Friendship Lane, Sunniside, Abbey Street, Bond Street, Commercial Street, Brig Open, Wells Street, Darlington Street, Nuns Street, West View Road, and Throston Street
  5 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2021 1.4 km
• Properties at The Headland, including Marine Drive, Sea View Terrace, York Place, Albion Terrace, South Crescent, Moor Parade, and Broad Field Road
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2023 1.7 km
• Coastal rivers within Tyneside and Wearside from Brier Dene to Castle Eden Burn
  5 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jul 2023 7.9 km
• Industrial properties on Seal Sands and Southern Graythorp, and Billingham Fire Station
  no warning on record since 2006 8.0 km
• Low lying land surrounding Tidal River Tees, downstream of the Tees Barrage, including areas of Middlesbrough and Billingham
  5 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Apr 2024 9.2 km
• North Sea coastline including Hartlepool, Seaton Carew, Redcar, Saltburn by the Sea, Skinningrove and Cowbar
  38 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 9.3 km

Recorded floods near Hartlepool

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Hartlepool, 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 Dec 2013 — Tees Estuary, including Port Clarence Sea

Rainfall near Hartlepool

Hartlepool gets about 607 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 66 mm; driest March, 36 mm). That is 48% 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 (1.4 km away), recorded 2.2 mm in the last 24 hours and 23.0 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 29 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Hartlepool

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

High likelihood (34)

Medium likelihood (4)

Low likelihood (67)

Very low likelihood (34)

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.