Does Preesall flood?

Flood warnings in force near Preesall

• Flood alert — Wyre estuary from Fleetwood and Knott End to Little Eccleston
  A flood alert remains in place for tonight's high tide at Hambleton which will peak at 00:45am on 12/09/2026 5.3 km

From the Environment Agency's live warnings. Always check the official GOV.UK flood warnings or call Floodline on 0345 988 1188.

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

Ordnance Survey places 60 postcodes in Preesall 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 1,626 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 Preesall

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Preesall watch Cockers Dyke, Lune And Wyre, Broad Fleet, Horsebridge Dyke.

• Preesall Pumping Station, Cockers Dyke Structure
  Cockers Dyke · 1.9 km away 0.97 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 31 min ago
• Fleetwood Tidal
  Lune And Wyre · 2.4 km away 3.25 m
  rises and falls with the tide · 31 min ago
• Pilling, Broadfleet Tidal
  Broad Fleet · 4.2 km away 1.26 m
  rises and falls with the tide · 31 min ago
• Poulton Cottam Hall Field Grid
  Horsebridge Dyke · 9.1 km away 0.17 m
  normal range · steady · 31 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Preesall'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 Preesall

24 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Preesall. The EA has issued 631 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 11 Sep 2026.

• Pilling Lane, Knott-End-on-Sea and Cote Walls Farm
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Jan 2018 0.8 km
• Land drained by the pumped watercourses in Preesall including properties contained by Pilling Lane, Green Dick's Lane, Head Dyke Lane and the Lancaster Road and those accessed from Grasmere Road
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2024 0.8 km
• Wrampool Bridge, Dam Side, Pilling, Smallwood Hey and Parrox Hall 2.1 km
• Dock Street and Fleetwood Ferry Terminal 3.0 km
• Area from Cockerham to Fleetwood including Knott-End-on-Sea, Staynall, Preesall Park, Pilling Lane, Pilling Moss, Stake Pool, Smallwood Hey, Pilling, Dam Side and Winmarleigh Moss
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2014 3.6 km
• Larkholme, Broadwater, Rossall Point, Marina area and the Fleetwood Town Football Ground 4.4 km
• Wyrefield Farm, Fleetwood Road and Rossall Lane Woods 4.8 km
• Wardleys Pool, Wardleys Lane, Wyresdale Caravan Park, Riverside Drive, The Conifers, Kiln Lane, Brook Vale and Brickhouse Lane
  20 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2024 4.9 km
• Wardleys Pool, Wardleys Lane, Wyresdale Caravan Park, Riverside Drive, The Conifers, Kiln Lane, Brook Vale and Brickhouse Lane 5.2 km
• Tiger's Tail, Wyre Dock, Burrow's Marsh, Burn Naze, Thornton, Trunnah, Stanah, Poulton-le-Fylde, Skippool, Hambleton, Cold Row, Little Singleton, Little Eccleston and Crow Woods
  303 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Sep 2026 5.3 km
• Nestleton, Underbank Road, Aylesbury House and Silcock's Cottages
  23 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2024 5.7 km
• Nestleton, Underbank Road, Aylesbury House and Silcock's Cottages, Trunnah, Stanah, Millfield Science and Performing Arts College and Marsh Farm 5.9 km

Recorded floods near Preesall

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Preesall, most recent first. Absence of a record does not mean a place has never flooded. See them on the map →

• 28 Sep 2019 — Carr Lane
• 28 Sep 2019 — Sunnyside Terrace / Lancaster Road
• 22 Nov 2017 — Fleetwood Road
• 22 Nov 2017 — Shakespeare Road
• 22 Nov 2017 — Mebourne Avenue
• 22 Nov 2017 — Formby Avenue
• 22 Nov 2017 — Hazel Avenue
• 22 Nov 2017 — Hesketh Place Drainage
• 22 Nov 2017 — London Street
• 22 Nov 2017 — Carr Lane
• 22 Nov 2017 — Sower Carr Lane
• 22 Nov 2017 — Parksway

…and 31 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Preesall

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (3.7 km away), recorded 5.9 mm in the last 24 hours and 17.4 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 47 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Preesall

Every postcode Ordnance Survey places in Preesall 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 (1)

Low likelihood (7)

Very low likelihood (48)

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.