Does Spalding flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 743 postcodes in Spalding 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 15,847 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 Spalding

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Spalding watch River Glen.

• Surfleet Sluice Structure
  River Glen · 7.6 km away 0.84 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 32 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Spalding'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 Spalding

6 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Spalding. The EA has issued 77 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 15 Feb 2026.

• Western areas of Spalding on the left bank of the River Welland and areas around Pinchbeck, including Crossgate, Pode Hole and Little London
  no warning on record since 2006 2.1 km
• Eastern areas of Spalding on the right bank of the river Welland and surrounding areas, including Deeping St Nicholas, Crowland, Cowbit, Moulton and Whaplode
  no warning on record since 2006 5.6 km
• River Glen at Surfleet Reservoir during high tide periods
  24 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 7.4 km
• Tidal flooding from the Right Bank of the River Welland in parts of Spalding, Low Fulney and Moulton Common
  no warning on record since 2006 7.7 km
• Lower River Glen from Greatford to Surfleet Seas End, including the Bourne Eau in Bourne and the area around Kates Bridge, Baston and Pinchbeck
  41 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 8.7 km
• Far extent of tidal flooding from the Wash between Gibraltar point and Admiralty Point and the Tidal River Witham, the Tidal River Welland and the Tidal River Nene
  12 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2007 9.6 km

Recorded floods near Spalding

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

• 16 Mar 1947 — LNA_1947_March_River Welland_Crowland Main river

Rainfall near Spalding

Spalding gets about 597 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month August, 61 mm; driest March, 36 mm). That is 49% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.8 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (3.0 km away), recorded 3.2 mm in the last 24 hours and 41.2 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 32 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Spalding

Every postcode Ordnance Survey places in Spalding 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 (668)

Low likelihood (33)

Very low likelihood (36)

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.