Does Rochford flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 36 postcodes in Rochford 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 426 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 Rochford

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Rochford watch Thames Tideway.

• Southend Tidal
  Thames Tideway · 7.2 km away 2.83 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 33 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Rochford'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 Rochford

11 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Rochford. The EA has issued 92 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 13 Jun 2025.

• The Eastwood Brook from downstream of Rayleigh Weir and the Prittlewell Brook, to Southend Airport
  8 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Sep 2024 2.3 km
• The River Roach, Prittle Brook and Eastwood Brook at Southend
  41 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jun 2025 2.4 km
• Southend seafront from the Pier along the Western and Chalkwell Esplanades to Chalkwell
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Jan 2017 4.9 km
• The Essex coast from Shoeburyness, to and including Southend seafront, from Thorpe Esplanade to Chalkwell Esplanade, including Southchurch Park
  18 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 5.3 km
• Shoeburyness to Southend Pier including Shoebury Common Road, Southchurch Park and Eastern Esplanade
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Jan 2017 5.5 km
• Hullbridge waterside properties and the Dome Caravan Park
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2017 6.3 km
• Paglesham, Great Stambridge, Rochford, Little and Great Wakering, Potton Island and Rushley Island
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2013 7.3 km
• The tidal River Crouch from Creeksea to Battlesbridge, including north and South Fambridge, Hullbridge and South Woodham Ferrers
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2013 7.6 km
• Leigh-on-Sea frontage including the High Street, Chalkwell to Hadleigh marshes and Two Tree Island
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Jan 2017 8.2 km
• The Essex coast from Leigh-on-Sea, to and including, Hadleigh Marshes, and Two Tree Island
  16 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Apr 2024 8.2 km
• Burnham-on-Crouch, from Wick Road to Dengie Hundred Sports Centre, including the High Street
  no warning on record since 2006 9.5 km

Recorded floods near Rochford

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

• 12 Jan 1968 — 1968 September Flood Outline Main river
• 1 Jun 1958 — 1958 Flood Outline Other
• 31 Jan 1953 — 1953 Coast Flood Outline Essex Sea

Rainfall near Rochford

Rochford gets about 542 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 59 mm; driest March, 33 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), 2.3 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (4.8 km away), recorded 4.4 mm in the last 24 hours and 48.9 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 33 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Rochford

Every postcode Ordnance Survey places in Rochford 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 (9)

Low likelihood (17)

Very low likelihood (4)

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.