Does Newbiggin-by-the-Sea flood?

What the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk data says about Newbiggin-by-the-Sea

Ordnance Survey places 40 postcodes in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea 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 462 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 Newbiggin-by-the-Sea

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Newbiggin-by-the-Sea watch North Sea.

• Blyth Tidal
  North Sea · 6.3 km away 1.75 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 38 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Newbiggin-by-the-Sea'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 Newbiggin-by-the-Sea

4 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Newbiggin-by-the-Sea. The EA has issued 12 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 8 Oct 2024.

• Properties located on roads and streets adjacent to Crawford Street, Hodgsons Road, Croft Road, Regent Street, Union Street, Bridge Street and Princess Louise Road
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Dec 2013 6.2 km
• Properties at Blyth Quayside and around Battleship Wharf, Wordsell Street and Dale Street in North Blyth, and properties around West Bridge Street and Selbourne Terrace in Cambois
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2013 6.2 km
• Properties at Bothal Village, Sheepwash Bank, Sheepwash Gardens and The Bungalow at Sheepwash
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2023 6.6 km
• Coastal rivers in South Northumberland including the River Lyne, Sleek Burn and Seaton Burn
  5 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2024 7.8 km

Recorded floods near Newbiggin-by-the-Sea

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

• 5 Dec 2013 — Blyth Sea
• 6 Sep 2008 — Lower River Wanseck Main river
• 1 Jan 1900 — Sleekburn Main river
• 1 Jan 1900 — Newbiggen Sea
• 1 Jan 1900 — Lynemouth Sea

Rainfall near Newbiggin-by-the-Sea

Newbiggin-by-the-Sea gets about 630 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 71 mm; driest March, 38 mm). That is 46% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.6 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (1.2 km away), recorded 1.0 mm in the last 24 hours and 21.4 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 23 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea

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

High likelihood (11)

Medium likelihood (3)

Low likelihood (25)

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.