Does Locking flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 22 postcodes in Locking 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 336 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 Locking

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Locking watch Congresbury Yeo.

• Congresbury
  Congresbury Yeo · 8.6 km away No recent reading
  last reported 11 Sep 2026 10:00
• Iwood
  Congresbury Yeo · 9.5 km away 0.06 mASD
  normal range · steady · 30 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Locking'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 Locking

17 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Locking. The EA has issued 149 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 29 Aug 2026.

• Milton Road, Worle High Street and Ebdon Road in the north to Broadway and Locking in the south. St Georges and West Wick in the east to the A3033 Drove Road in the west including the Hutton Moor area, Weston Village and Locking Castle 1.4 km
• Properties on Knightstone Road, Royal Parade, Marine Parade, Beach Road, West Street, High Street, Waterloo Street, Boulevard, Alfred Street, Meadow Street, Baker Street, Jubilee Road and George Street 4.3 km
• Coastline at Uphill from Links Road to Uphill Road and Grange Road to the south, the A370 to the east to Old Church Road to the north including Weston General Hospital
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2020 4.4 km
• Promenade including The Grand Pier, Tropicana and other seaward properties and the Marine Lake area, including Knightstone Island and Knightstone Causeway
  16 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Apr 2024 4.5 km
• Coastline between Kewstoke and Sand Point including properties and Caravan Sites along Beach Road, Crookes Lane, Southside Crescent and Sand Road
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2020 4.6 km
• Coastline between Kewstoke and Sand Point including seafront properties at Sand Point Farm area
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2020 4.7 km
• Court Road, Myrtle Tree Crescent, St Bridges Close and Sand Farm Lane in Kewstoke and Sand Bay to Kewside and Lower Norton Lane to the south and Collum Lane to the east 4.9 km
• Coastline at Uphill including Slimeridge Farm Caravan Park area and the Boat Yard
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2020 5.1 km
• Properties and Caravan Sites along Coast Road, South Road, Church Road and Warren Road in Brean and properties from Wick and Edingworth to the south to Loxton to the east and Bleadon to the north including Lympsham and Eastertown 5.9 km
• Coastal areas at Dunster Beaches, Blue Anchor, Steart, Stolford and Brean
  111 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Aug 2026 6.0 km
• Wick St Lawrence to the west to Riverside near Banwell to the south and Station Road at Congresbury to the east including Puxton and Hewish. Horsecastle Farm and The Batch areas at Yatton to Kenn Road to the north including Kenn 6.5 km
• Hurn Lane to Brean Down including Red Road, Ham Road and Weston Road
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2020 7.1 km

Recorded floods near Locking

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

• 21 Nov 2016 — Flowerdown Park Drainage
• 9 Jan 2014 — Flood Extents_Winter 2013 to 2014 Main river
• 24 Nov 2012 — Hutton_Nov 2012 Drainage
• 21 Nov 2012 — Kewstoke_Nov 2012 Drainage
• 20 Nov 2012 — Nov 2012 Floods Ordinary watercourse
• 18 Jul 2007 — EA112_Weston_Super_Mare_Worle Drainage
• 13 Dec 1981 — EA112_Coastal_Uphill_1981 Sea
• 13 Dec 1981 — EA112_Coastal_Weston_1981 Sea
• 13 Dec 1981 — EA112_Coastal_SandBay Sea
• 18 Aug 1977 — EA112_Uphill_Great_Rhyne_Wharf Farm Main river
• 9 Jan 1936 — EA112_Coastal_Weston_super_Mare_1936 Sea

Rainfall near Locking

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (6.3 km away), recorded 1.3 mm in the last 24 hours and 15.1 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 3 h ago).

At-risk postcodes in Locking

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

Low likelihood (1)

Very low likelihood (21)

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.