Does Hereford flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 203 postcodes in Hereford 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 2,373 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 Hereford

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Hereford watch River Wye, Yazor Brook, River Lugg.

• Old Wye Bridge
  River Wye · 0.3 km away 1.37 m
  normal range · rising · 2 h ago
• Hereford - Ledbury Road
  Yazor Brook · 1.0 km away No recent reading
  last reported 26 Oct 2026 14:30
• Three Elms Structure
  Yazor Brook · 2.5 km away 0.05 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 2 h ago
• Belmont
  River Wye · 2.6 km away 1.61 m
  normal range · rising · 2 h ago
• Lugwardine
  River Lugg · 4.0 km away 0.70 m
  normal range · 2 h ago
• Mordiford
  River Wye · 6.7 km away 1.60 m
  normal range · falling · 2 h ago

Distances are from the middle of Hereford'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 Hereford

9 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Hereford. The EA has issued 263 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 17 Mar 2026.

• River Wye in North Hereford
  34 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2025 0.6 km
• River Wye at Blackmarstone, Hereford
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2023 0.6 km
• Yazor and Widemarsh Brook in Hereford
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2024 0.9 km
• River Wye in South Hereford
  36 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2025 1.1 km
• River Wye at Rotherwas, Hereford
  15 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2024 2.6 km
• River Wye at Hampton Bishop
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2020 4.9 km
• River Lugg at Hampton Bishop
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2020 4.9 km
• River Lugg south of Leominster
  127 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2026 6.6 km
• River Wye from Hereford to Ross-On-Wye
  43 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2025 9.7 km

Recorded floods near Hereford

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

• 20 Jul 2007 — Lugg at Hampton Bishop Main river
• 9 Apr 1998 — Withington Marsh April 1998 01 Main river
• 4 Dec 1960 — Hereford December 1960 01 Main river
• 1 Apr 1947 — Confluence of Wormbrook Main river
• 1 Apr 1947 — Credenhill to Hereford April 1947 Main river
• 1 Apr 1947 — Credenhill April 1947 01 Main river
• 1 Apr 1947 — Breinton Common to Broomy Hill Main river
• 1 Apr 1947 — HamptonBishop April 1947 01 Main river
• 1 Apr 1947 — WerginsBridge to Shelwick Bridge Main river
• 1 Apr 1947 — Lugwardine April 1947 01 Main river
• 1 Apr 1947 — Lugg Bridge April 1947 01 Main river
• 1 Apr 1947 — WithingtonMarsh April 1947 01 Main river

…and 3 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Hereford

Hereford gets about 718 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 76 mm; driest July, 49 mm). That is 38% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.8 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (1.4 km away), recorded 2.6 mm in the last 24 hours and 41.6 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 2 h ago).

At-risk postcodes in Hereford

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

High likelihood (67)

Medium likelihood (58)

Low likelihood (77)

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.