Does Ingleton flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 37 postcodes in Ingleton 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 474 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 Ingleton

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Ingleton watch River Wenning.

• Bentham Bridge
  River Wenning · 4.8 km away 0.66 m
  normal range · falling · 29 min ago
• Low Bentham
  River Wenning · 5.7 km away 1.18 m
  normal range · falling · 29 min ago
• Wennington
  River Wenning · 8.3 km away 0.63 m
  normal range · falling · 29 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Ingleton'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 Ingleton

5 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Ingleton. The EA has issued 14 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 2 Nov 2020.

• River Wenning at High Bentham, Todhill, Wenning Avenue, Mayfield Road and Riverside Caravan Park
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2020 4.9 km
• River Wenning at High Bentham, at Wenning Avenue, Mayfield Road, Riverside Caravan Park and the Sewage Works
  7 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2020 4.9 km
• River Wenning at Low Bentham, Collingwood Drive, Mill Lane and Millers Ford
  no warning on record since 2006 5.7 km
• River Wenning at Low Bentham, Main St, Cedar House School, Punch Bowl Pub and Rose Cottages
  5 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2020 5.7 km
• Low lying area next to the River Wenning at Wennington, including Smithy House, Wennington Green, Wennington Bridge and buildings closest to the river at Forgewood House
  no warning on record since 2006 8.1 km

Recorded floods near Ingleton

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

• 1 Oct 2020 — Wenning Avenue Drainage
• 8 Feb 2020 — 2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Ciara Drainage
• 22 Aug 2016 — August 2016 Main river
• 5 Dec 2015 — River Wenning overtopped Main river
• 5 Dec 2015 — Lane Foot, Bentham

Rainfall near Ingleton

Ingleton gets about 1,281 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month December, 145 mm; driest April, 66 mm). That is close to the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.8 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (2.4 km away), recorded 5.1 mm in the last 24 hours and 46.2 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 29 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Ingleton

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

High likelihood (25)

Medium likelihood (2)

Low likelihood (10)

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.