Does Queenborough flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 77 postcodes in Queenborough 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 1,399 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 Queenborough

• Sheerness Tidal
  Tide · 3.6 km away -1.82 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 40 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Queenborough'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 Queenborough

6 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Queenborough. The EA has issued 272 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 26 Oct 2026.

• Areas at risk of coastal flooding in Sheerness, Minster and Queenborough, including Rushenden, Scrapsgate and West Minster
  no warning on record since 2006 1.5 km
• Scrapsgate Drain from the B2008 to the sea, through Minster and Scrapsgate and the Warden Bay Drain from Bay View to the sea, including Warden and surrounding holiday villages
  55 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jun 2025 3.6 km
• Scrapsgate Drain and Warden Bay Drain on the Isle of Sheppey
  7 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2021 3.6 km
• Areas at risk of coastal flooding on the Isle of Grain and in Lower Stoke and Middle Stoke
  no warning on record since 2006 5.8 km
• Areas at risk of coastal flooding on the Isle of Sheppey and North Kent Coast from Kemsley to Seasalter, including Sheerness, Minster, Queenborough, Leysdown on Sea, Sittingbourne and Faversham
  121 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 8.0 km
• Areas at risk of tidal flooding on the Tidal Medway, Medway estuary and Isle of Grain, including Aylesford, Medway Towns, Lower Halstow, Middle Stoke and Lower Stoke
  89 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 9.6 km

Recorded floods near Queenborough

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

• 11 Oct 2000 — 07302B910_OCT2000_Iwade Main river
• 11 Jan 1978 — 07308B100_JAN1978_Stour Tidal_Chetney Marshes Sea
• 11 Jan 1978 — 07308B100_JAN1978_Stour Tidal_Elmley Island_Isle O Sea
• 11 Jan 1978 — 07307C100_JAN1978_MedwayTidalEstuary_Lower Halstow Sea
• 1 Feb 1953 — 07301B100_FEB1953_Burntwick Island Sea
• 1 Feb 1953 — 07308B100_FEB1953_Iwade CP Sea
• 1 Feb 1953 — 07308B100_FEB1953_The Swale_Sittingbourne Sea
• 1 Feb 1953 — 07307C100_FEB1953_Medway Estuary_Isle of Sheppey Sea
• 1 Feb 1953 — 07301B100_FEB1953_Chetney Marshes Sea
• 1 Feb 1953 — 07301C100_FEB1953_Medway Estuary_Isle of Sheppey Sea
• 1 Feb 1953 — 07301E900/C100_FEB1953_Isle of Grain Sea
• 31 Jan 1953 — 1953 Coast Flood Outline Essex Sea

Rainfall near Queenborough

Queenborough gets about 542 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 58 mm; driest March, 32 mm). That is 53% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.5 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (7.0 km away), recorded 1.0 mm in the last 24 hours and 38.6 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 25 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Queenborough

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

Medium likelihood (2)

Low likelihood (8)

Very low likelihood (67)

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.