Does Market Deeping flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 69 postcodes in Market Deeping 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 852 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 Market Deeping

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Market Deeping watch River Welland, River Glen.

• Market Deeping
  River Welland · 1.4 km away 0.08 m
  normal range · steady · 24 min ago
• Deeping St James
  River Welland · 3.0 km away 0.95 m
  normal range · steady · 24 min ago
• Tallington
  River Welland · 5.3 km away 0.40 m
  normal range · steady · 24 min ago
• Kates Bridge
  River Glen · 5.3 km away 0.05 m
  normal range · steady · 24 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Market Deeping'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 Market Deeping

11 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Market Deeping. The EA has issued 100 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 3 Mar 2026.

• River Welland in Market Deeping including properties directly by the river in Market Deeping
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 0.9 km
• River Welland in Deeping St James including properties near the river on Eastgate
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Jan 2024 3.3 km
• Properties near to the Maxey Cut to the west of Maxey Road in Lolham and Maxey
  no warning on record since 2006 4.1 km
• River Glen between Fletland Mill and Kates Bridge
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 5.2 km
• River Glen in Greatford Village
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 5.4 km
• Peterborough brooks in northern parts of Peterborough, Peakirk and Eye
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jul 2019 5.5 km
• Tributaries of the River Wellend North of Peterborough affecting Werrington, Paston, Gunthorpe, Walton, Peakirk and Eye
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2021 5.5 km
• Isolated properties at risk from the River West Glen including Corby glen, Creeton, Heath Farm and Banthorpe Lodge
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 7.7 km
• Lower Welland and other watercourses from Stamford to Spalding, including Market Deeping and Spalding
  37 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2026 7.7 km
• River East Glen in the East Glen Valley including properties near the river in Edenham, Toft, Manthorpe, and Braceborough
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 9.3 km
• Lower River Glen from Greatford to Surfleet Seas End, including the Bourne Eau in Bourne and the area around Kates Bridge, Baston and Pinchbeck
  41 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 9.5 km

Recorded floods near Market Deeping

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

• 2 Jan 2024 — LNA_2024_January_WestGlen_Greatford Main river
• 2 Jan 2024 — LNA_2024_01_Fluvial_KatesBridge Main river
• 9 Apr 1998 — LNA_1998_April_River Welland Main river
• 16 Mar 1947 — LNA_1947_March_River Welland_Crowland Main river

Rainfall near Market Deeping

Market Deeping gets about 595 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month July, 64 mm; driest March, 35 mm). That is 49% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.2 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (5.5 km away), recorded 0.0 mm in the last 24 hours and 0.2 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 24 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Market Deeping

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

High likelihood (36)

Medium likelihood (4)

Low likelihood (18)

Very low likelihood (11)

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.