Does Puckeridge flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 25 postcodes in Puckeridge 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 227 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 Puckeridge

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Puckeridge watch River Quin, River Ash, River Beane, River Rib, Amwell Loop, River Stort.

• Braughing
  River Quin · 1.8 km away 0.09 m
  normal range · steady · 36 min ago
• Little Hadham
  River Ash · 5.1 km away Sensor under review
  reading not shown
• Dane End
  River Beane · 5.7 km away 0.87 m
  normal range · steady · 36 min ago
• Wadesmill
  River Rib · 6.2 km away 0.21 m
  normal range · steady · 36 min ago
• Furneux Pelham
  River Ash · 6.7 km away 0.18 m
  normal range · 36 min ago
• Buntingford
  River Rib · 7.0 km away 0.05 m
  normal range · steady · 36 min ago
• Mardock
  River Ash · 8.1 km away 0.11 m
  normal range · steady · 36 min ago
• Tumbling Bay Weir Structure
  Amwell Loop · 9.2 km away 30.42 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 36 min ago
• Bishops Stortford, Grange Paddocks
  River Stort · 9.9 km away -0.02 m
  below normal · steady · 36 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Puckeridge'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 Puckeridge

11 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Puckeridge. The EA has issued 96 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 16 Feb 2026.

• The River Rib at Buntingford to Barwick including Standon
  no warning on record since 2006 0.7 km
• The River Quin at Braughing
  no warning on record since 2006 2.5 km
• The Rivers Rib and Quin at Chipping, Buntingford, Braughing, Standon, Barwick, Wadesmill and Hertford
  5 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2024 3.7 km
• The River Ash in Hertfordshire including Furneux Pelham, Little Hadham, Much Hadham and Wareside
  27 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2024 4.0 km
• The River Ash at Furneux Pelham including Clapgate
  no warning on record since 2006 5.9 km
• The Dane End tributary at Dane End including Sacombe
  no warning on record since 2006 6.0 km
• The River Ash at Little Hadham, Hadham Ford, Much Hadham, Widford and Wareside
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Feb 2014 6.3 km
• The River Rib at Wadesmill to Hertford
  no warning on record since 2006 8.1 km
• The River Beane catchment including the Stevenage Brook and the Dane End Tributary
  15 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 9.0 km
• The River Beane at Watton-at-Stone to Waterford including Stapleford
  no warning on record since 2006 9.4 km
• The River Stort, Stansted Brook and their tributaries from Clavering to Hoddesdon including Stansted Mountfitchet, Bishops Stortford, Sawbridgeworth and Harlow
  48 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 9.6 km

Recorded floods near Puckeridge

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

• 2 Oct 2024 — EAOctoberAutumn2024 Main river
• 22 Sep 2024 — EA06SeptemberAutumn2024 Main river
• 9 Feb 2024 — EA06FebruaryWinter2024 Main river
• 14 Jan 2021 — ea06JanuaryWinter2021 Sewer
• 31 Jan 2014 — ea06FebruaryWinter2014 Main river
• 18 Feb 2013 — ea06FebruaryWinter2014 Main river
• 3 May 2012 — ea06MaySpring2012 Ordinary watercourse
• 30 Nov 2009 — ea06NovemberAutumn2009 Main river
• 9 Feb 2009 — ea06FebruaryWinter2009 Main river
• 21 Oct 2001 — 06OctoberAutumn2001 Main river
• 1 Oct 2001 — 06OctoberAutumn2001 Main river
• 1 Oct 1993 — 06OctoberAutumn1993 Main river

…and 8 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Puckeridge

Puckeridge gets about 651 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 69 mm; driest March, 39 mm). That is 44% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.4 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (1.8 km away), recorded 3.8 mm in the last 24 hours and 47.4 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 22 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Puckeridge

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

High likelihood (3)

Medium likelihood (3)

Low likelihood (13)

Very low likelihood (6)

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.