Does Radstock flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 32 postcodes in Radstock 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 232 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 Radstock

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Radstock watch Wellow Brook, Mells River, Midford Brook.

• Welton
  Wellow Brook · 2.7 km away 0.16 m
  normal range · 40 min ago
• Wellow
  Wellow Brook · 5.8 km away 0.87 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 40 min ago
• Stoke Bottom Farm
  Mells River · 7.5 km away 0.16 m
  normal range · rising · 40 min ago
• Vallis
  Mells River · 8.9 km away 0.47 m
  normal range · rising · 40 min ago
• Midford
  Midford Brook · 9.5 km away 1.14 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 25 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Radstock'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 Radstock

6 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Radstock. The EA has issued 78 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 24 Oct 2026.

• Wellow Brook including Thicketmead Bridge in Midsomer Norton and Mill Road in Radstock. Coomb End Culvert including Coombend and Market Place. The Snails and Kilmersdon Brooks including Church Street and St Nicholas Primary School and the River Somer
  no warning on record since 2006 0.6 km
• Wellow Brook including Station Road and Welton Hollow in Midsomer Norton and Fortescue Road, Waterloo Road, Pine Court and Mill Road Industrial Estate in Radstock. River Somer including Riverside, Steam Mills, St Chads Green and Somervale School
  no warning on record since 2006 3.3 km
• River Cam, Wellow and Midford Brooks and tributaries
  27 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 3.3 km
• Cam Brook including Temple Bridge, Hallatrow and Camerton. Wellow Brook from Lower Writhlington to Midford including Wellow and the Midford Brook including Midford and Monkton Combe Mill
  no warning on record since 2006 5.4 km
• River Mells including Edford, Ham Bridge, Coleford, Lower Vobster, Mells, Great Elm and Spring Gardens and the Whatley Brook
  7 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2024 7.0 km
• River Frome and Mells, and the Whatley and Nunney Brooks and tributaries
  44 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 9.0 km

Recorded floods near Radstock

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

• 17 Jun 2016 — Chilcompton Main river
• 17 Jun 2016 — Riverside Bridge Playing Fields Main river
• 21 Nov 2012 — Radstock_Nov 2012 Main river
• 20 Nov 2012 — Nov 2012 Floods Main river
• 30 May 1979 — EA112_Somer_MidsomerNorton_1979 Main river
• 28 Jan 1975 — EA112_Somer_MNorton_1975 Main river
• 11 Feb 1974 — EA112_Wellow_MidsomerNorton Main river
• 11 Feb 1974 — EA112_WellowBk_Midsomer Main river
• 2 Dec 1972 — EA112_Wellow_Radstock Main river
• 2 Dec 1972 — EA112_Somer_MNorton Main river
• 11 Jul 1968 — EA112_Mells River_Spring Gardens_Vobster_ Coleford Main river
• 10 Jul 1968 — EA112_Somer_Wellow_Radstock_Norton Main river

…and 12 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Radstock

Radstock gets about 936 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month December, 105 mm; driest June, 58 mm). That is 20% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.8 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (4.2 km away), recorded 6.2 mm in the last 24 hours and 95.6 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 25 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Radstock

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

High likelihood (6)

Medium likelihood (7)

Low likelihood (19)

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.