Does Norton Fitzwarren flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 20 postcodes in Norton Fitzwarren 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 328 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 Norton Fitzwarren

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Norton Fitzwarren watch River Tone, Halse Water, Old River Tone, Hillfarrance Brook.

• Bishops Hull
  River Tone · 1.2 km away 0.29 m
  normal range · rising · 35 min ago
• Halsewater
  Halse Water · 1.2 km away 0.25 m
  normal range · steady · 35 min ago
• Taunton Market
  River Tone · 3.3 km away 0.86 m
  normal range · steady · 35 min ago
• Bathpool Outfall Structure
  River Tone · 5.6 km away 7.59 mAOD
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 35 min ago
• Bathpool Outfall
  Old River Tone · 5.7 km away 8.02 mAOD
  below normal · falling · 35 min ago
• Milverton
  Hillfarrance Brook · 8.3 km away 0.18 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 35 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Norton Fitzwarren'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 Norton Fitzwarren

8 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Norton Fitzwarren. The EA has issued 131 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 5 Feb 2026.

• Norton Bridge to Silk Mills Lane including Wassail View, Station Road, Morse Road, Mill House Road, Beauford Park and Taunton Trading Estate
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Feb 2016 0.1 km
• Silk Mills Bridge to Bathpool including Roughmoor Close, Palmerston Road, French Weir, Castle Street and Station Road
  7 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2013 2.2 km
• Silk Mills Bridge to Bathpool including Clarence Street, Pollards Way, Greenbrook Terrace, Wood Street, Bridge Street, Staplegrove Road, St James Street and Priorswood Industrial Estate
  no warning on record since 2006 3.0 km
• The Anchor Inn to the Old Rectory including the Old Mill and properties along the main road through Hillfarrance
  no warning on record since 2006 3.2 km
• Silk Mills Bridge to Bathpool including Roughmoor Crescent, Weirfield Green, Riverside, Northfield Avenue, French Weir Close, Cleveland Street, Portland Street, Belvedere Road, Albemarle Road, Priory Avenue to Firepool area and Crown Industrial Estate
  no warning on record since 2006 4.6 km
• River Tone from Clatworthy Reservoir to Currymoor, the Hillfarrance Brook, the Halsewater Stream and other tributaries in the River Tone catchment
  103 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 5.4 km
• Bathpool including Bridgwater Road, Acacia Gardens, Swingbridge, Hyde Lane, St Quintin Park and Rex Hill Farm. Ruishton including Overlands, Lawn Meadow and Newlands Grove. Creech St Michael including Mill Lane, Bull Street, Ham Road and Ham village
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 6.5 km
• Rugby Ground, Husk Farm, Mill Cottages, Sewage Treatment Works and Ham Mills
  18 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 7.7 km

Recorded floods near Norton Fitzwarren

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Norton Fitzwarren, 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 Jan 2014 — Flood Extents_Winter 2013 to 2014 Main river
• 25 Nov 2012 — Taunton_Nov 2012 Main river
• 22 Nov 2012 — West Buckland_Nov 2012 Ordinary watercourse
• 21 Nov 2012 — Norton Fitzwarren_Nov 2012 Main river
• 20 Nov 2012 — Nov 2012 Floods Main river
• 29 Apr 2012 — EA112_Sherford Stream_Vivary Park_Taunton Main river
• 29 Apr 2012 — EA112_Tone_Taunton to Nynehead Main river
• 10 Feb 2009 — EA112_Norton_Brook_Norton_Fitzwarren_2009 Main river
• 10 Feb 2009 — EA112_SW_Spring_Terrace_Norton_Fitzwarren_2009 Drainage
• 10 Feb 2009 — EA112_SW_Halsewater_Norton_Fitzwarren_2009 Drainage
• 10 Feb 2009 — EA112_Tone_Bishops_Hull_2009 Main river
• 10 Feb 2009 — EA112_Tone_Firepool_Taunton_2009 Main river

…and 18 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Norton Fitzwarren

Norton Fitzwarren gets about 835 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 97 mm; driest May, 53 mm). That is 28% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.6 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (5.3 km away), recorded 5.4 mm in the last 24 hours and 72.6 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 35 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Norton Fitzwarren

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

High likelihood (4)

Medium likelihood (2)

Low likelihood (5)

Very low likelihood (9)

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.