Does Manea flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 20 postcodes in Manea 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 379 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 Manea

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Manea watch Counter Drain, River Great Ouse.

• Welches Dam Structure
  Counter Drain · 4.1 km away No recent reading
  last reported 10 Nov 2026 14:00
• Welney Causeway Tidal
  River Great Ouse · 6.2 km away 0.87 m
  rises and falls with the tide · 27 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Manea'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 Manea

3 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Manea. The EA has issued 102 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 28 Feb 2026.

• Hundred Foot Washes, also known as the Ouse Washes, including the causeways at Earith, Sutton Gault and Welney
  102 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 2.3 km
• Coveney, Witchford, Little Downham, Littleport, Welney, Southery, Hilgay and Denver
  no warning on record since 2006 7.0 km
• Manea, Welney, Christchurch, Lot's Bridge, Nordelph and Salters Lode
  no warning on record since 2006 7.8 km

Recorded floods near Manea

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

• 12 Jan 1968 — 1968 September Flood Outline Main river

Rainfall near Manea

Manea gets about 568 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 58 mm; driest February, 33 mm). That is 51% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.4 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (8.6 km away), recorded 0.1 mm in the last 24 hours and 0.1 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 27 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Manea

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

Low likelihood (17)

Very low likelihood (3)

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.