Does Red Lodge flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 32 postcodes in Red Lodge 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 327 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 Red Lodge

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Red Lodge watch River Lark, River Kennett, River Snail.

• Barton Mills Sluice Structure
  River Lark · 4.2 km away 0.12 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 32 min ago
• Beck Bridge
  River Kennett · 5.1 km away -0.20 m
  below normal · steady · 32 min ago
• Temple
  River Lark · 6.0 km away 0.21 m
  normal range · 32 min ago
• Isleham
  River Lark · 8.0 km away 2.15 m
  normal range · steady · 32 min ago
• Fordham
  River Snail · 9.9 km away 0.09 m
  normal range · 32 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Red Lodge'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 Red Lodge

5 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Red Lodge. The EA has issued 20 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 18 Feb 2024.

• Lidgate Road and The Street in Dalham, St Peters Avenue, Church Road and Brookside in Moulton, Edgeborough Close, Bury Road and Moulton Avenue in Kentford, Badlingham, and The Street in Freckenham
  no warning on record since 2006 2.6 km
• Fornham St. Martin, Fornham All Saints, Fornham St. Genevieve, Hengrave, Flempton, West Stow, Icklingham, Barton Mills, Mildenhall, Worlington, West Row and Isleham
  no warning on record since 2006 4.0 km
• River Lark from Sicklesmere to Isleham
  12 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2024 4.1 km
• River Kennett from Cowlinge to Freckenham
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2023 5.2 km
• Areas of Newmarket at risk of groundwater flooding, including the High Street, and the A14 between junctions 37 and 38
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2024 6.7 km

Recorded floods near Red Lodge

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

• 5 Dec 2013 — 2013 Flood Outline Sea
• 12 Jan 1968 — 1968 September Flood Outline Main river
• 1 Jan 1951 — 1951 River
• 1 Jan 1947 — March 1947

Rainfall near Red Lodge

Red Lodge gets about 572 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month August, 60 mm; driest March, 35 mm). That is 51% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 3.1 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (4.7 km away), recorded 2.5 mm in the last 24 hours and 40.5 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 33 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Red Lodge

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

High likelihood (1)

Low likelihood (31)

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.