Does Sutton on Sea flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 121 postcodes in Sutton on Sea 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 2,472 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 on Sea

• Boygrift Tidal
  Tide · 2.2 km away 0.49 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 37 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Sutton on Sea'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 on Sea

12 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Sutton on Sea. The EA has issued 36 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 22 Oct 2025.

• Mablethorpe, Trustthorpe and Sutton on Sea including Sandilands
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2017 0.7 km
• Trusthorpe, Sutton on Sea, Huttoft Bank frontage, Sandilands and Roman Bank
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2017 2.3 km
• Theddlethorpe to Huttoft including Mile Lane, Hagnaby and Thorpe
  no warning on record since 2006 3.0 km
• Alford to Mablethorpe including Mile Lane, Church Lane, Cheltenham Way and Winchester Drive
  no warning on record since 2006 3.2 km
• Tidal flooding of areas near the Lincolnshire coastline from Tetney Haven to Gibraltar Point
  18 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2025 3.7 km
• Mablethorpe frontage including Victoria Road, Seaholme Road, Gibraltar Road and North Promenade
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2017 4.5 km
• Far extent of tidal flooding from the Lincolnshire Coastline between Tetney Haven and Gibraltar Point
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2017 7.0 km
• Anderby, Thurlby, Mumby, Cumberworth, Helsey and Listoft including Sea Road, Long Lane and Willoughby Road
  no warning on record since 2006 7.6 km
• Anderby Creek to Chapel St Leonards frontage including Anderby Road
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2017 8.1 km
• Claythorpe and North Reston to Saltfleet including Healey Lane, Thacker Bank, Saltfleet Road and Sea View
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2023 8.5 km
• Theddlethorpe including Saltfleet Road, Station Road, Brickyard Lane and Sea Lane
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2017 8.7 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 9.5 km

Recorded floods near Sutton on Sea

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Sutton on Sea, 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 Sutton on Sea

Sutton on Sea gets about 636 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 66 mm; driest March, 39 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), 1.0 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (14.4 km away), recorded 3.0 mm in the last 24 hours and 56.4 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 37 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Sutton on Sea

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

Medium likelihood (73)

Low likelihood (48)

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.