Does St Ives flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 214 postcodes in St Ives 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 2,785 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 St Ives

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of St Ives watch River Great Ouse, Swavesey Drain.

• St Ives
  River Great Ouse · 1.4 km away 0.13 m
  normal range · rising · 58 min ago
• Hemingford
  River Great Ouse · 2.0 km away 0.21 m
  normal range · 58 min ago
• Houghton
  River Great Ouse · 3.2 km away 0.28 m
  normal range · falling · 58 min ago
• Webbs Hole Sluice Structure
  Swavesey Drain · 4.9 km away 0.69 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 47 min ago
• Brownshill
  River Great Ouse · 5.6 km away 0.53 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 58 min ago
• Godmanchester
  River Great Ouse · 7.1 km away 0.40 m
  normal range · 58 min ago
• Earith
  River Great Ouse · 7.9 km away 1.96 m
  normal range · 58 min ago
• Brampton Sluice Structure
  River Great Ouse · 9.1 km away 0.16 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 58 min ago

Distances are from the middle of St Ives'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 St Ives

14 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of St Ives. The EA has issued 90 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 15 Feb 2026.

• Westwood Road, Ramsey Road, Broad Leas, Warren Road, The Broadway, West Street, East Street, Needingworth Road, Station Road, New Road, London Road, Low Road, Dunnock Way and Greenfields
  no warning on record since 2006 1.1 km
• London Road and Enderbys Wharf in St Ives
  no warning on record since 2006 1.1 km
• Harding Way, Nursery Gardens, Russet Close, Bramley Road, Elsworth Close, Rookery Close, Sheepfold, Great Fathing Close, Little Fathing Close, Fathing Lane, Brookway, Willow Way, Abbey Retail Park, Parson Green and Parsons Drove
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Apr 2024 1.5 km
• River Great Ouse from Brampton to Earith, including Back Brook, Hall Green Brook, Parsons Drove Drain, Swavesey Drain and Wadsbys Folly
  41 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 2.3 km
• Meadow Lane, River Meadow, Common Lane, High Street, Church Lane, Rideaway, Royal Oak Lane and New Road in Hemmingford Abbotts, Church Street, Meadow Lane, Mill Lane, High Street, Marsh Lane, Pound Lane and St Ives Road in Hemmingford Grey
  no warning on record since 2006 2.8 km
• Low Road, Hall Green Lane, Manor Drive and Honey Hill in Fenstanton, Daintrees Road, Dovecote Close and High Street in Fen Drayton
  no warning on record since 2006 3.4 km
• Banks End, Splash Lane, Manor Close, St Margarets Road, Warren Close, Ware Lane, Victoria Crescent, Rectory Lane and Huntingdon Road in Wyton, St Ives Road, Home Farm Road, Mill Street, Chapel Lane, Thicket Road and Meadow Lane in Houghton
  no warning on record since 2006 3.7 km
• Hollywell Front in Hollywell, Overcote Lane in Needingworth and Hale Road, Taylors Lane, Blackhorse Lane, Station Road, Over Road, High Street, Chantry Close, Moat Way, Whitegate Close, Thistle Green, Greenside Close and Cow Fen Drove in Swavesey
  no warning on record since 2006 5.0 km
• Waters Meet, Temple Close, Hartford Road, Tennis Court Avenue, Nursery Road and Brookside in Huntington, Main Street, Church Lane, The Grove and Old Houghton Road in Hartford
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Sep 2024 5.9 km
• Overcote Road Horseware, Fen End and Hitherford in Over, Needingworth Road in Bluntisham and High Street, Marina Drive, Kingfisher Court, The Waterhaven and Earith Bridge in Earith
  no warning on record since 2006 6.0 km
• Cambridge Road, Cambridge Street, Meadow Way, Almond Close, Rectory Gardens, Fox Grove, Lancaster Way, East Chadley Lane, Orchard Way, Linden Grove, Pavilion Close, Park Lane, The Avenue and Post Street
  no warning on record since 2006 6.1 km
• Berry Lane, West Street, The Causeway, St Anns Lane, Cambridge Street, Earning Street, Fairey Avenue, The Close, Tudor Road, Cambridge Road, White Hart Lane, Anderson Crescent, Orchard Way, Chadley Lane, Post Street, and The Avenue in Godmanchester
  no warning on record since 2006 7.2 km

Recorded floods near St Ives

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

• 1 Jan 2001 — October 2001 River
• 9 Apr 1998 — LNA_1998_April_River Nene_d/s Northampton Main river
• 1 Jan 1998 — Easter 1998 River
• 1 Jan 1993 — October 1993 River
• 1 Jan 1947 — March 1947

Rainfall near St Ives

St Ives gets about 562 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 59 mm; driest March, 33 mm). That is 52% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.3 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (1.4 km away), recorded 2.6 mm in the last 24 hours and 32.8 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 28 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in St Ives

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

High likelihood (79)

Medium likelihood (32)

Low likelihood (100)

Very low likelihood (3)

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.