Does Southport flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 301 postcodes in Southport 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 6,884 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 Southport

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Southport watch The Sluice.

• Crossens Pumping Station Structure
  The Sluice · 1.9 km away 1.59 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 37 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Southport'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 Southport

11 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Southport. The EA has issued 32 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 20 Aug 2026.

• Crossens, Marshside, Stanley High School, The Marine Way Bridge and New Pleasureland 0.6 km
• Banks, Banks Enclosed Marsh, Crossens, Land Houses, Holmes, Martin Mere, Scarisbrick Moss, Marshside and Marine Drive
  8 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2022 2.2 km
• Marine Drive 3.2 km
• Banks Enclosed Marsh, Churchtown Moss, Brooklyn Caravan Park, Homes Moss and Sugar Stubbs Farm 3.4 km
• Low lying land from Ormskirk to Southport including, Banks, Birkdale, Brown Edge, Mere Brow and Scarisbrick
  15 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Aug 2026 4.1 km
• Old Hollow Farm 4.3 km
• Bacconsail Marsh, Hesketh Old Marsh, Hesketh New Marsh, Hundred End Farm and Rosepark Nursery 8.4 km
• Low lying land to the north of Dib Road including RSPB Hesketh 8.5 km
• Poultry Farm, Saltcotes, Lytham, Lytham Dock and Lodge Farm 8.8 km
• Lytham Dock, Lytham Windmill Museum and Stanner Bank 9.2 km
• Lytham, Lytham Green, Saltcotes, Lytham Moss, Lower Ballam and Warton
  9 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2018 10.0 km

Recorded floods near Southport

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Southport, most recent first. Absence of a record does not mean a place has never flooded. See them on the map →

• 10 Aug 2020 — Rufford Road
• 22 Nov 2017 — Gravel Lane Drainage
• 22 Nov 2017 — Sugar Stubbs Lane
• 5 Sep 2017 — Recorded flood Other
• 26 Dec 2015 — Wyke Cop Road, Scarisbrick

Rainfall near Southport

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (2.0 km away), recorded 0.2 mm in the last 24 hours and 36.8 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 37 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Southport

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

High likelihood (3)

Medium likelihood (10)

Low likelihood (7)

Very low likelihood (281)

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.