Does Ivybridge flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 31 postcodes in Ivybridge 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 159 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 Ivybridge

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Ivybridge watch River Erme, River Yealm, River Avon, Tory Brook, Long Brook.

• Ermington
  River Erme · 3.0 km away 0.75 m
  normal range · falling · 25 min ago
• Harford
  River Erme · 3.7 km away No recent reading
• Cornwood
  River Yealm · 4.1 km away 0.41 m
  normal range · falling · 40 min ago
• Puslinch
  River Yealm · 7.7 km away 0.72 m
  normal range · falling · 25 min ago
• Didworthy
  River Avon · 7.8 km away 0.82 m
  normal range · rising · 2 h ago
• Newnham Park
  Tory Brook · 8.2 km away 0.46 m
  normal range · 40 min ago
• Plympton
  Long Brook · 9.7 km away 0.22 m
  normal range · 25 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Ivybridge'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 Ivybridge

8 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Ivybridge. The EA has issued 350 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 27 Feb 2026.

• Riverside locations and roads between Ivybridge and Ermington, including Ivybridge, Keaton Bridge, Thornham Bridge, Ermington, the A3121 at Ermington and the A379 at Sequers Bridge
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2025 2.6 km
• River Yealm from Mill Bridge to Lee Mill including Wisdome Bridge, Blachford, Langham Bridge, Lucas Wood, and Lee Mill Bridge
  no warning on record since 2006 3.2 km
• Lee Mill, Yealmpton, Popples Bridge and Newton Ferrers
  113 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 3.4 km
• The River Yealm at Yealmbridge and Yealmpton including Sandpark Wood, Mill Leat Close, Torr Bridge Park and Boldventure
  12 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2025 6.7 km
• the Rivers Avon, Erme and Harbourne, coastal streams from Bigbury to Dartmouth, and Kingsbridge, South Brent and Ivybridge areas
  185 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 8.0 km
• low lying properties and roads at South Brent, Avonwick and Aveton Gifford
  9 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 8.2 km
• Riverside properties and roads between Didworthy and Aveton Gifford, including vulnerable parts of South Brent and Avonwick, Diptford, Gara Bridge, Loddiswell and vulnerable parts of Aveton Gifford
  26 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 9.7 km
• Tory Brook from Newnham Park to Long Bridge including Newnham Rd, Glen Rd, Plympton St Mary Bridge, Valley Rd and Plympton Sewage Treatment Works
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2019 9.8 km

Recorded floods near Ivybridge

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

• 19 Dec 2022 — River Yealm Main river
• 22 Dec 2012 — CW9273 - Yealmpton Main river
• 22 Dec 2012 — CW9272 - Yealmbridge Main river
• 25 Nov 2012 — CW9207 - Yealmpton Main river
• 25 Nov 2012 — CW9207 - Yealmbridge Main river
• 7 Jul 2012 — CW9060 - Lee Mill Main river
• 7 Jul 2012 — Thornham Bridge, Ermington Flood July 2012 Main river
• 7 Jul 2012 — CW9060 - Yealm - Lotherton Bridge area Main river
• 7 Jul 2012 — CW9060 - Yealmbridge, Worston area Main river
• 7 Jul 2012 — CW9060 - Yealm, Marks Bridge Main river
• 7 Jul 2012 — CW9060 - Yealmbridge Main river
• 7 Jul 2012 — Yealmbridge Flood July 2012 Main river

…and 10 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Ivybridge

Ivybridge gets about 1,504 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month December, 183 mm; driest May, 81 mm). That is 29% wetter than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.5 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (1.7 km away), recorded 20.6 mm in the last 24 hours and 147.7 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 25 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Ivybridge

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

High likelihood (8)

Medium likelihood (8)

Low likelihood (15)

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.