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No official flood warning is active nearby and the closest river stations are within normal ranges.
Updated 2026-10-09 13:01:21 UTC · Official GOV.UK warnings · Flood preparation & help guide
Hirst Courtney is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England.
Towns and villages near Hirst Courtney with a page of their own: the homes in a flood risk area there, the nearest river gauges, and recorded floods.
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Place names: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Two mapped watercourses are about the same distance from the middle of Hirst Courtney's gauges: the River Aire (about 300 m) and Marsh Drain (about 330 m), so this page cannot say which one is nearer to you.
Distances along the river are from the point on each watercourse nearest the middle of Hirst Courtney's gauges. From Ordnance Survey’s river map (OS Open Rivers), which leaves out small streams, ditches and culverts, so a nearer one may exist. This describes where water goes on the map; it says nothing about flooding at any address. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.
Hirst Courtney is monitored by 1 Environment Agency river level station on the West Bank Pond, in North Yorkshire. Water levels are updated every 15 minutes, providing real-time flood monitoring for the area.
The West Bank Pond is monitored by 1 station (West Marsh Washlands). Each station records water levels continuously, with data synced to FloodRadar every 5 minutes.
There are 8 Environment Agency flood warning areas within 10km of Hirst Courtney. When the EA issues a flood warning for any of these areas, it will appear on this page. These include: Hirst Marsh and West Marsh including Hirst Road from West Bank to Coates Hall Farm; Gowdall including Lodge Lane and Main Street from Newby Lane to Buck Pit Bank; Hirst Courtney including Main Street and Hirst Road; Temple Hirst including Eastfield Lane and Common Lane.
There are 12 storm overflows within 5km of Hirst Courtney. None of the 10 with a reporting monitor are currently discharging (2 have no live status right now). Enable "Sewage" on the map above to see their locations.
6 of them, nearest first, with their own page of live status and past discharges:
If flooding is forecast in Hirst Courtney, call Floodline on 0345 988 1188 for the latest information. Move valuables upstairs, turn off gas and electricity if safe to do so, and avoid walking or driving through flood water. Sign up for flood warnings on any station page above to receive email alerts when water levels rise. For emergency numbers, a preparation checklist and insurance guidance, see our flood help & preparation guide.
Hirst Courtney gets about 595 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month August, 64 mm; driest February, 37 mm). That is 49% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. See the rain gauges →
A thirty-year average for the area, not a forecast and not a flood risk on its own. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.4 km away. Average rainfall: HadUK-Grid v1.3.2, Met Office. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of the town centre — most recent first. These are records of mapped extents, not a full list of floods. See them on the map →
Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.
Current verdict: Normal. No official flood warning is active nearby and the closest river stations are within normal ranges.
Hirst Courtney has river level monitoring on West Bank Pond — 1 monitoring station in total.
Use the GOV.UK Check for Flooding service (check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk) or call Floodline on 0345 988 1188 (24 hours). You can also set up free FloodRadar email or browser alerts from any station page above.
Follow official advice: move valuables and vehicles to safety, never walk or drive through flood water, turn off gas and electricity if safe, and check on vulnerable neighbours. See our flood preparation guide at floodradar.co.uk/flood-help.
Yes — the Environment Agency's Recorded Flood Outlines dataset shows 60 recorded flood extents around the town centre since 1703, most recently in 2020. That is a count of mapped extents, not of separate floods. Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded. See the flood history link below.
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