Does Shaldon flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 36 postcodes in Shaldon 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 552 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 Shaldon

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Shaldon watch River Teign, Dawlish Water, River Lemon, Shutterton Brook, Aller Brook.

• Teignmouth Tidal
  Tide · 0.9 km away 2.12 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 25 min ago
• Coombe Cellars Tidal
  River Teign · 2.9 km away 2.12 m
  rises and falls with the tide · 25 min ago
• Dawlish
  Dawlish Water · 5.2 km away 0.17 m
  normal range · 25 min ago
• Templers Road Tidal
  River Lemon · 6.6 km away 1.46 m
  rises and falls with the tide · 25 min ago
• Dawlish Warren Secmaton Lane
  Shutterton Brook · 7.1 km away 0.45 m
  below normal · falling · 55 min ago
• Kingskerswell
  Aller Brook · 7.3 km away 0.41 m
  normal range · falling · 55 min ago
• Union Bridge
  River Lemon · 7.4 km away 0.07 m
  normal range · 25 min ago
• Torquay Outer Tidal
  Tide · 9.2 km away 2.41 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 25 min ago
• Chudleigh Bridge
  River Teign · 9.6 km away 0.59 m
  normal range · 25 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Shaldon'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 Shaldon

9 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Shaldon. The EA has issued 49 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 27 Jan 2026.

• Low-lying parts of Shaldon and Teignmouth including The Strand, Bridge Road, Fore Street and Ringmore Road areas at Shaldon and the Back Beach and Town Centre areas of Teignmouth
  no warning on record since 2006 0.0 km
• Low-lying parts of the Teign Estuary including The Strand at Ringmore, the Quays at Teignmouth, the Passage House Hotel and Coombe Cellars Inn
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Apr 2016 2.9 km
• Dawlish including Overbrook, Brook Street, Alexander Road, Brunswick Place, Brookdale Terrace, Piermont Place, and the riverside lawn area of Dawlish Town Centre
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2025 5.3 km
• vulnerable areas around the Newton Abbot Racecourse, Newton Road and Pottery Road
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 6.1 km
• Low-lying properties and roads in Kingsteignton, including Jetty Marsh Road, Newton Abbot Racecourse, the A383 Newton Road and Kingsteignton Industrial and Retail Parks
  no warning on record since 2006 6.1 km
• Low-lying properties and roads in Newton Abbot, including the Osborne Park area, cricket ground, Marsh Road, Wharf Road, Quay Road and Forde Road areas
  no warning on record since 2006 6.6 km
• Low lying properties and roads in Newton Abbot, including Bakers Park, Bradley Lane Industrial Estate, the town centre, Queen Street and Osborne Park areas
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Dec 2013 6.9 km
• Riverside properties and roads between Chudleigh and Kingsteignton, including New Bridge, Ventiford, Preston, Teigngrace, Teign Bridge and Exeter Road
  42 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2025 8.0 km
• Low-lying parts of Starcross and Cockwood, including The Strand and Generals Lane at Starcross and Cockwood Harbour
  no warning on record since 2006 9.9 km

Recorded floods near Shaldon

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Shaldon, 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 Mar 2018 — Dawlish Storm Emma 2018 Sea
• 14 Feb 2015 — Dawlish 2014 Sea
• 1 Jan 2014 — Wave Overtopping Winter 2014 Sea
• 24 Nov 2012 — Dawlish Flood November 2012 Main river
• 4 Aug 2012 — Luton Flood August 2012 Ordinary watercourse
• 24 Oct 2004 — Teignmouth, October 2004 Sea
• 20 Mar 2001 — Combeinteignhead - March 2001 Ordinary watercourse
• 20 Mar 2001 — Under Way RD - Kingskerswell - March 2001 Ordinary watercourse
• 1 Jan 2001 — Teignmouth Brimley Brook: 2001 Ordinary watercourse
• 1 Jan 2001 — EA113FEO01022 Ordinary watercourse
• 17 Dec 1989 — Teignmouth 17th Dec 1989 Sea
• 11 Jul 1968 — Jul-68 Drainage

Rainfall near Shaldon

Shaldon gets about 980 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 116 mm; driest July, 52 mm). That is 16% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 0.5 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (7.0 km away), recorded 5.2 mm in the last 24 hours and 65.6 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 25 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Shaldon

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

High likelihood (10)

Medium likelihood (8)

Low likelihood (11)

Very low likelihood (7)

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.