Does Skegness flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 604 postcodes in Skegness 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 16,546 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 Skegness

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Skegness watch River Steeping.

• Wainfleet
  River Steeping · 8.4 km away 0.65 m
  normal range · 37 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Skegness'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 Skegness

11 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Skegness. The EA has issued 80 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 27 Jan 2026.

• Skegness including Seathorne, Winthorpe, Lincoln Road, the A158, the A52 and Seacroft
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2017 1.5 km
• Seathorne, Skegness and Gibralter Point frontage including North and South Parade
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2017 2.9 km
• Ingoldmells frontage including Roman Bank, Laver Leisure Holiday Home Park and Butlins
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2017 4.5 km
• Ingoldmells and Addlethorpe including Marsh Lane and Southings Lane
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2017 5.8 km
• Wider area at risk from the Little River Lymn and Cowcroft Drain around Croft, including Croft Road and Church Lane
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 5.9 km
• Bilsby to Thorpe St Peter including Bonthorpe, Sloothby, Orby, Burgh le Marsh and Irby in the Marsh
  no warning on record since 2006 6.6 km
• Properties near the Little River Lymn and Cowcroft Drain in Croft
  no warning on record since 2006 7.2 km
• Merrifield Road, Rumbold Lane and Dovecote Lane in Wainfleet All Saints
  7 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 7.7 km
• Wider area at risk from the River Steeping and Wainfleet Relief Channel around Thorpe St Peter and Wainfleet All Saints
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 8.4 km
• Chapel St Leonards and Hogsthorpe including the A52, Sea Lane, Maiden Lane and Stone's Lane
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2017 8.8 km
• River Steeping between Tetford and Wainfleet, including Stockwith Mill, Partney, Croft and Wainfleet. Tributaries may also affect Great Steeping
  50 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 9.0 km

Recorded floods near Skegness

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Skegness, 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 — LNA_2013_12_Tidal_Witham_Haven Sea
• 31 Jan 1953 — LNA_1953_01_Lincolnshire Coastline Other

Rainfall near Skegness

Skegness gets about 635 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 67 mm; driest March, 38 mm). That is 45% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.0 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (5.3 km away), recorded 2.2 mm in the last 24 hours and 38.4 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 37 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Skegness

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

High likelihood (14)

Medium likelihood (97)

Low likelihood (493)

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.