Does Sutton flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 22 postcodes in Sutton 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 179 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 Sutton

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Sutton watch River Great Ouse, Counter Drain.

• Sutton Gault
  River Great Ouse · 2.1 km away 0.93 mAOD
  normal range · steady · 27 min ago
• Earith Tidal
  River Great Ouse · 6.8 km away No recent reading
  last reported 10 Nov 2026 14:45
• Welches Dam Structure
  Counter Drain · 7.6 km away No recent reading
  last reported 10 Nov 2026 14:00
• Brownshill
  River Great Ouse · 9.6 km away No recent reading
  last reported 10 Nov 2026 14:00
• Soham Lode
  River Great Ouse · 9.8 km away 1.60 m
  normal range · 27 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Sutton'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 Sutton

4 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Sutton. The EA has issued no flood warning or alert for them since 2006 — the state of the warning record, not evidence the area has not flooded.

• Cottenham, Haddenham, Sutton, Wilingham, Stretham, Landbeach, Wilburton, Waterbeach, Over, Hollywell-cum-Needingworth
  no warning on record since 2006 6.3 km
• Benwick, Ramsey, Earith, Chatteris, Doddington, Wimblington, March, Welches Dam, Purls Bridge and Manea
  no warning on record since 2006 8.8 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 9.3 km
• St. Thomas Place, Bartholemews Walk, The Dock, Station Road, Angel Drove, Stutney Causeway, Bridge Road, Waterside, Annesdale and Ship Lane
  no warning on record since 2006 10.0 km

Recorded floods near Sutton

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

• 9 Apr 1998 — LNA_1998_April_River Nene_d/s Northampton Main river
• 1 Jan 1998 — Easter 1998

Rainfall near Sutton

Sutton gets about 570 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 60 mm; driest March, 34 mm). That is 51% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.3 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (9.6 km away), recorded 0.1 mm in the last 24 hours and 0.1 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 28 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Sutton

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

Low likelihood (11)

Very low likelihood (11)

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.