Does Kingsteignton flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 68 postcodes in Kingsteignton 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 759 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 Kingsteignton

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Kingsteignton watch River Lemon, River Teign, River Bovey Tributary, Aller Brook, River Bovey, Dawlish Water.

• Templers Road Tidal
  River Lemon · 1.7 km away 0.13 m
  rises and falls with the tide · 46 min ago
• Union Bridge
  River Lemon · 2.4 km away 0.04 m
  normal range · steady · 46 min ago
• Coombe Cellars Tidal
  River Teign · 3.2 km away 0.75 mASD
  rises and falls with the tide · 31 min ago
• Holbeam Dam
  River Lemon · 4.7 km away 0.12 mASD
  below normal · rising · 31 min ago
• Holbeam Dam Downstream
  River Lemon · 4.7 km away 0.00 mASD
  below normal · steady · 31 min ago
• Chudleigh Bridge
  River Teign · 5.4 km away 0.39 mASD
  below normal · steady · 31 min ago
• Bovey Tracey Wifford Footbridge
  River Bovey Tributary · 6.3 km away 0.37 m
  normal range · steady · 1 h ago
• Teignmouth Tidal
  Tide · 6.8 km away -1.32 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 46 min ago
• Kingskerswell
  Aller Brook · 7.0 km away 0.39 m
  normal range · steady · 31 min ago
• Bickington
  River Lemon · 7.6 km away 0.38 m
  normal range · steady · 46 min ago
• Bovey Parke
  River Bovey · 8.1 km away 0.36 m
  below normal · steady · 46 min ago
• Dawlish
  Dawlish Water · 9.4 km away 0.15 m
  normal range · steady · 31 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Kingsteignton'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 Kingsteignton

11 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Kingsteignton. The EA has issued 272 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 26 Feb 2026.

• Low-lying properties and roads in Kingsteignton, including Jetty Marsh Road, Newton Abbot Racecourse, the A383 Newton Road and Kingsteignton Industrial and Retail Parks 0.6 km
• vulnerable areas around the Newton Abbot Racecourse, Newton Road and Pottery Road
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 1.1 km
• Low-lying properties and roads in Newton Abbot, including the Osborne Park area, cricket ground, Marsh Road, Wharf Road, Quay Road and Forde Road areas 1.8 km
• Low lying properties and roads in Newton Abbot, including Bakers Park, Bradley Lane Industrial Estate, the town centre, Queen Street and Osborne Park areas
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Dec 2013 2.0 km
• Riverside properties and roads between Chudleigh and Kingsteignton, including New Bridge, Ventiford, Preston, Teigngrace, Teign Bridge and Exeter Road
  42 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2025 2.2 km
• Low-lying parts of the Teign Estuary including The Strand at Ringmore, the Quays at Teignmouth, the Passage House Hotel and Coombe Cellars Inn
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Apr 2016 3.2 km
• riverside locations and roads between Bickington and Newton Abbot, including Bickington, Chipley Bridge, Morley Bridge, Chercombe Bridge, Ogwell Mill and the A383
  8 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2024 4.9 km
• Low-lying parts of Shaldon and Teignmouth including The Strand, Bridge Road, Fore Street and Ringmore Road areas at Shaldon and the Back Beach and Town Centre areas of Teignmouth 6.0 km
• properties and roads in Bovey Tracey and Heathfield including St John's Lane, Station Road, Newton Road, Brook Close and Waterside
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 6.3 km
• Dawlish including Overbrook, Brook Street, Alexander Road, Brunswick Place, Brookdale Terrace, Piermont Place, and the riverside lawn area of Dawlish Town Centre
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2025 9.6 km
• Rivers Teign, Bovey and Lemon and coastal streams from Babbacombe to Kenton
  211 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 9.6 km

Recorded floods near Kingsteignton

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Kingsteignton, most recent first. Absence of a record does not mean a place has never flooded. See them on the map →

• 4 Aug 2012 — Luton Flood August 2012 Ordinary watercourse
• 4 Aug 2012 — Sandygate Flood August 2012 Ordinary watercourse
• 20 Mar 2001 — Under Way RD - Kingskerswell - March 2001 Ordinary watercourse
• 20 Mar 2001 — Combeinteignhead - March 2001 Ordinary watercourse
• 20 Mar 2001 — Ventiford Bridge - March 2001 Ordinary watercourse
• 30 Oct 2000 — Autumn 2000 Event - Teigngrace Ordinary watercourse
• 3 Apr 1987 — Whitelake Channel confluence with River Teign Main river
• 3 Apr 1987 — Whitelake Marshes Main river
• 28 Dec 1979 — Kingsteignton Racecourse Main river
• 28 Dec 1979 — Kingsteignton - Newton Abbot Racecourse Main river
• 28 Dec 1979 — Whitelake Marshes Main river
• 28 Dec 1979 — Newton Road and Industrial Units Main river

…and 13 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Kingsteignton

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (7.5 km away), recorded 1.9 mm in the last 24 hours and 24.2 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 46 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Kingsteignton

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

High likelihood (4)

Medium likelihood (52)

Low likelihood (7)

Very low likelihood (5)

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.