Does New Romney flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 51 postcodes in New Romney 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 567 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.

Flood warning areas near New Romney

7 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of New Romney. The EA has issued 68 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 22 Oct 2025.

• New Romney Sewage Arm from the Sewage Treatment Works to the Sea and from Littlestone Road to the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, including New Romney
  14 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2024 1.8 km
• New Romney Sewage Arm including Littlestone-on-Sea and The Greens
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2024 1.8 km
• Coast and tidal areas from Sandgate to Lydd, including Hythe, Dymchurch, St Marys Bay, Littlestone, Greatstone, New Romney and communities on the Romney Marsh up to the Royal Military Canal
  41 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2025 4.7 km
• Coastal areas from Folkestone to St Mary's Bay
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2020 5.5 km
• Coastal areas from Littlestone Golf Course to Dungeness
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2025 7.2 km
• Coastal areas from Dungeness to Rye
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2020 7.4 km
• Denge Marsh, including Coastguard Cottages and Midrips Cottages, East of Jury's Gap
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2020 9.4 km

Recorded floods near New Romney

None mapped within ~5 km of New Romney.

No recorded outline within ~5 km of New Romney means no flood was mapped here, which is not evidence none happened: the Environment Agency mapped only some floods, mapping effort rose sharply after about 2000, and surface-water flooding is largely absent from this record. Open the recorded-floods map →

Rainfall near New Romney

New Romney gets about 695 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 85 mm; driest March, 39 mm). That is 40% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.5 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (3.3 km away), recorded 2.0 mm in the last 24 hours and 44.2 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 33 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in New Romney

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

Very low likelihood (51)

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.