Does Haverhill flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 44 postcodes in Haverhill 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 423 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 Haverhill

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Haverhill watch Stour Brook, River Stour, Bumpstead Brook, River Colne.

• Sturmer
  Stour Brook · 2.7 km away 0.15 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 43 min ago
• Kedington
  River Stour · 3.5 km away 0.20 m
  normal range · steady · 28 min ago
• Broad Green
  Bumpstead Brook · 4.0 km away 0.05 m
  normal range · steady · 28 min ago
• Great Yeldham
  River Colne · 9.1 km away No recent reading
  last reported 26 Oct 2026 04:00

Distances are from the middle of Haverhill'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 Haverhill

3 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Haverhill. The EA has issued 34 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 27 Jan 2026.

• The Stour Brook from Meldham Bridge in Haverhill to Linnetts Lane in Sturmer
  19 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 1.4 km
• Bumpstead Brook from Helions Bumpstead through Steeple Bumpstead and Broad Green to New England
  14 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 4.0 km
• The upper River Colne and surrounding tributaries, including Great Yeldham
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Nov 2023 9.9 km

Recorded floods near Haverhill

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

• 9 Jan 2009 — 2009 Flood Outline Main river
• 21 Oct 2001 — 2001 Flood Outline Main river
• 21 Oct 2001 — Stour 2001 - Steeple Bumpstead properties Main river
• 12 Jan 1968 — 1968 September Flood Outline Main river
• 11 Jan 1960 — 1960_61 Flood Outline Main river
• 13 Feb 1947 — 1947 Flood Outline Main river

Rainfall near Haverhill

Haverhill gets about 632 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month August, 71 mm; driest March, 39 mm). That is 46% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.0 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (3.7 km away), recorded 2.4 mm in the last 24 hours and 37.2 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 28 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Haverhill

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

High likelihood (6)

Low likelihood (1)

Very low likelihood (37)

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.