Does Wainfleet All Saints flood?

What the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk data says about Wainfleet All Saints

Ordnance Survey places 30 postcodes in Wainfleet All Saints 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 283 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 Wainfleet All Saints

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Wainfleet All Saints watch River Steeping.

• Wainfleet
  River Steeping · 0.7 km away 0.63 m
  normal range · 30 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Wainfleet All Saints'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 Wainfleet All Saints

10 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Wainfleet All Saints. The EA has issued 75 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 27 Jan 2026.

• Merrifield Road, Rumbold Lane and Dovecote Lane in Wainfleet All Saints
  7 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 0.4 km
• Wider area at risk from the River Steeping and Wainfleet Relief Channel around Thorpe St Peter and Wainfleet All Saints
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 1.6 km
• Wider area at risk from the Little River Lymn and Cowcroft Drain around Croft, including Croft Road and Church Lane
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 2.1 km
• River Steeping between Tetford and Wainfleet, including Stockwith Mill, Partney, Croft and Wainfleet. Tributaries may also affect Great Steeping
  50 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 4.1 km
• Properties near the Little River Lymn and Cowcroft Drain in Croft
  no warning on record since 2006 4.4 km
• Bilsby to Thorpe St Peter including Bonthorpe, Sloothby, Orby, Burgh le Marsh and Irby in the Marsh
  no warning on record since 2006 6.1 km
• Properties near the Lady Wath Beck in Great Steeping, and properties near Wold Drain in Firsby
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2024 6.4 km
• Skegness including Seathorne, Winthorpe, Lincoln Road, the A158, the A52 and Seacroft
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2017 6.6 km
• Seathorne, Skegness and Gibralter Point frontage including North and South Parade
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2017 6.9 km
• Wider area at risk from the East Fen Catchwater Drain, including Thorpe Fendykes, Friskney, Wrangle Bank, New Leake, Eastville and Midville
  no warning on record since 2006 9.0 km

Recorded floods near Wainfleet All Saints

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

• 20 Oct 2023 — LNA_2023_10_Fluvial_Steeping Main river
• 11 Jun 2019 — LNA_2019_06_Steeping River Main river
• 11 Jun 2019 — LNA_2019_06_Havenside Main river
• 5 Dec 2013 — LNA_2013_12_Coastal_Jubilee Bank Sea
• 5 Dec 2013 — LNA_2013_12_Tidal_Witham_Haven Sea
• 26 Jun 2007 — LNA_2007_06_River Steeping Main river
• 31 Jan 1953 — LNA_1953_01_Lincolnshire Coastline Other

Rainfall near Wainfleet All Saints

Wainfleet All Saints gets about 626 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 63 mm; driest March, 38 mm). That is 46% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.9 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (3.2 km away), recorded 2.9 mm in the last 24 hours and 43.2 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 1 h ago).

At-risk postcodes in Wainfleet All Saints

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

High likelihood (8)

Medium likelihood (1)

Low likelihood (21)

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.