Does Millbrook flood?

Flood warnings in force near Millbrook

• Flood alert — Plymouth Sound, Wembury Bay and tidal estuaries
  Flooding is possible 2 hours either side of high tide on Tuesday morning 9.1 km

From the Environment Agency (England). Always check the GOV.UK Check for Flooding service or call Floodline on 0345 988 1188.

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

Ordnance Survey places 24 postcodes in Millbrook 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 216 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 Millbrook

• Plymouth Tidal
  Tide · 3.2 km away 1.15 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 42 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Millbrook'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 Millbrook

3 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Millbrook. The EA has issued 112 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 26 Oct 2026.

• Plymouth Barbican including Sutton Harbour, Southside Street, Breton Street, Vauxhall Street, Sutton Road, Lockyers Quay and Tin Lane
  20 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2020 6.4 km
• Plymouth Sound including Cawsand, Kingsand, Millbrook, The Hoe, and the Tidal Lynher, Tamar, Tavy, Plym and Yealm estuaries
  69 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 9.1 km
• Plymouth Sound including Cawsand, Kingsand, Millbrook, The Hoe, and the Tidal Lynher, Tamar, Tavy, Plym and Yealm estuaries
  23 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 9.4 km

Recorded floods near Millbrook

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

• 28 Aug 2025 — Kingsand Main river
• 11 Mar 2024 — Millbrook Sea
• 8 Feb 2020 — Kingsand Main river
• 14 Jan 2020 — CW9621 - Plymouth Sea
• 30 Sep 2019 — CW9599 - Plymouth Drainage
• 8 Nov 2018 — CW9584 - Plymouth (Devonport road) Drainage
• 2 Feb 2017 — CW9522 - Kingsand Sea
• 10 Apr 2016 — CW9496 - Kingsand Sea
• 10 Apr 2016 — CW9489 - Millbrook Sea
• 5 Feb 2014 — CW9368 - Plymouth
• 5 Feb 2014 — CW9369 - Plymouth - West Hoe Sea
• 5 Feb 2014 — CW9361 - Kingsand Sea

…and 30 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Millbrook

Millbrook gets about 1,074 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month December, 125 mm; driest May, 65 mm). That is close to the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 0.4 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (2.3 km away), recorded 14.4 mm in the last 24 hours and 92.3 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 27 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Millbrook

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

High likelihood (14)

Medium likelihood (2)

Low likelihood (7)

Very low likelihood (1)

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.