Does Northborough flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 26 postcodes in Northborough 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 633 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 Northborough

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

• Market Deeping
  River Welland · 1.4 km away 0.08 m
  normal range · steady · 27 min ago
• Deeping St James
  River Welland · 1.4 km away 0.94 m
  normal range · steady · 27 min ago
• Tallington
  River Welland · 5.7 km away 0.39 m
  normal range · steady · 27 min ago
• Kates Bridge
  River Glen · 8.0 km away 0.05 m
  normal range · steady · 27 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Northborough'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 Northborough

9 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Northborough. The EA has issued 56 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 3 Mar 2026.

• River Welland in Deeping St James including properties near the river on Eastgate
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Jan 2024 1.5 km
• River Welland in Market Deeping including properties directly by the river in Market Deeping
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 2.1 km
• Peterborough brooks in northern parts of Peterborough, Peakirk and Eye
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jul 2019 2.9 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 2.9 km
• Properties near to the Maxey Cut to the west of Maxey Road in Lolham and Maxey
  no warning on record since 2006 4.0 km
• River Glen in Greatford Village
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 7.5 km
• Lower Welland and other watercourses from Stamford to Spalding, including Market Deeping and Spalding
  37 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2026 7.6 km
• River Glen between Fletland Mill and Kates Bridge
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 7.9 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 9.3 km

Recorded floods near Northborough

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

• 9 Apr 1998 — LNA_1998_April_River Welland Main river
• 16 Mar 1947 — LNA_1947_March_River Welland_Crowland Main river

Rainfall near Northborough

Northborough gets about 585 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month August, 59 mm; driest March, 35 mm). That is 50% 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 (3.2 km away), recorded 0.2 mm in the last 24 hours and 0.3 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 27 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Northborough

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

High likelihood (25)

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.