Does Humberston flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 63 postcodes in Humberston 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 2,498 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 Humberston

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Humberston watch Buck Beck, Laceby Beck, Waithe Beck, North Sea.

• Humberston Tidal
  Buck Beck · 1.3 km away 2.02 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 42 min ago
• River Freshney Grimsby
  Laceby Beck · 7.3 km away 0.19 m
  normal range · rising · 42 min ago
• Brigsley
  Waithe Beck · 7.7 km away 0.09 m
  normal range · steady · 42 min ago
• Laceby
  Laceby Beck · 9.4 km away 0.08 m
  normal range · steady · 42 min ago
• Spurn Point Tidal
  North Sea · 9.5 km away -0.96 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 42 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Humberston'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 Humberston

17 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Humberston. The EA has issued 104 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 1 Mar 2026.

• Areas at risk near Buck Beck including Kings Road, Gayton Road, Thorganby Road and Wilton Road
  no warning on record since 2006 0.6 km
• Wider area at risk of tidal flooding in Cleethorpes and parts of Humberston
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2013 0.8 km
• Cleethorpes frontage from Harrington Street to Humberston Fitties
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2017 1.0 km
• Humberston frontage from 4th Avenue to 12th Avenue
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2017 2.1 km
• Wider area at risk of tidal flooding in the Weelsby, Old Clee, Grant Thorold and Sidney Park areas of Grimsby and Cleethorpes
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2013 3.9 km
• Wider area at risk of tidal flooding in the East Marsh, Holme Hill and Wellow areas of Central Grimsby
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2013 5.0 km
• Humberston, Tetney Lock, Tetney and North Cotes Airfield including Church Lane, Sea Lane, Fitties Lane and Marsh Lane
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2017 5.9 km
• Wider area at risk of tidal flooding in the Littlefield, Yarborough and Little Coates areas of Grimsby
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2013 6.4 km
• Brigsley including Waithe Lane
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 7.6 km
• Wider area at risk from the New Cut Drain in the Wybers Wood and Willows Estate areas of Grimsby and the South Humberside Industrial Estate
  no warning on record since 2006 7.7 km
• Wybers Wood and Willows Estate areas of Grimsby including St Nicholas Drive, Grasby Crescent and Anderby Drive
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jun 2007 8.1 km
• Tidal flooding in The Willows and Great Coates areas of Grimsby, including South Humberside Industrial Estate
  no warning on record since 2006 8.1 km

Recorded floods near Humberston

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Humberston, 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 Drainage
• 8 Feb 2020 — 2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Ciara Main river
• 7 Nov 2019 — 2019 November Flood Incident Main river
• 5 Dec 2013 — LNA_2013_12_Tidal_Witham_Haven Sea
• 31 Jan 1953 — LNA_1953_01_Lincolnshire Coastline Other

Rainfall near Humberston

Humberston gets about 609 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 62 mm; driest March, 35 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), 1.7 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (9.4 km away), recorded 0.2 mm in the last 24 hours and 45.2 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 42 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Humberston

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

High likelihood (10)

Medium likelihood (18)

Low likelihood (22)

Very low likelihood (13)

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.