Does Lytham St Anne's flood?

What the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk data says about Lytham St Anne's

Ordnance Survey places 125 postcodes in Lytham St Anne's 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 1,735 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 Lytham St Anne's

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Lytham St Anne's watch The Sluice.

• Crossens Pumping Station Structure
  The Sluice · 7.1 km away 1.34 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 34 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Lytham St Anne's'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 Lytham St Anne's

14 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Lytham St Anne's. The EA has issued 49 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 20 Oct 2024.

• Poultry Farm, Saltcotes, Lytham, Lytham Dock and Lodge Farm
  no warning on record since 2006 0.5 km
• Lytham, Lytham Green, Saltcotes, Lytham Moss, Lower Ballam and Warton
  9 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2018 1.8 km
• Lytham Dock, Lytham Windmill Museum and Stanner Bank
  no warning on record since 2006 3.5 km
• Old Hollow Farm
  no warning on record since 2006 5.4 km
• Low lying land to the north of Dib Road including RSPB Hesketh
  no warning on record since 2006 5.5 km
• Freckelton Pool
  no warning on record since 2006 6.3 km
• Bacconsail Marsh, Hesketh Old Marsh, Hesketh New Marsh, Hundred End Farm and Rosepark Nursery
  no warning on record since 2006 7.0 km
• Banks Enclosed Marsh, Churchtown Moss, Brooklyn Caravan Park, Homes Moss and Sugar Stubbs Farm
  no warning on record since 2006 7.7 km
• Crossens, Marshside, Stanley High School, The Marine Way Bridge and New Pleasureland
  no warning on record since 2006 7.9 km
• Clifton Marsh Farm, Savick Brook Farm, Newton Marsh, Freckleton Marsh, Greenfield Park and Toll House Bridge
  no warning on record since 2006 8.0 km
• Freckleton Marsh, Riversway Docklands, Lower Penwortham, Hutton Marsh, Longton Marsh, Becconsall Marsh, Much Hoole Marsh, Bretherton Eyes, Croston Finney, Hesketh Out Marsh and Hundred End
  21 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2024 8.2 km
• Revoe and the A5099
  no warning on record since 2006 9.2 km

Recorded floods near Lytham St Anne's

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

• 22 Nov 2017 — South View Drainage
• 22 Nov 2017 — Mythop Avenue
• 26 Dec 2015 — Ribby Road, Kirkham
• 26 Dec 2015 — Ribby Road, Wrea Green Drainage
• 5 Dec 2013 — 5 December 2013 Tidal Event Main river
• 30 Jun 2007 — Surface Water - Blackpool South Drainage
• 10 Feb 1997 — WREA Other
• 10 Feb 1997 — LIGG Other
• 11 Nov 1977 — LIGG Other

Rainfall near Lytham St Anne's

Lytham St Anne's gets about 907 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 101 mm; driest April, 51 mm). That is 22% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 0.6 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (5.1 km away), recorded 3.6 mm in the last 24 hours and 63.4 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 34 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Lytham St Anne's

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

High likelihood (18)

Medium likelihood (14)

Low likelihood (13)

Very low likelihood (80)

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.