Does Walpole St Peter flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 26 postcodes in Walpole St Peter 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 506 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.

Flood warning areas near Walpole St Peter

9 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Walpole St Peter. The EA has issued 53 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 8 Oct 2025.

• Terrington St Clement, Walpole St Andrew, Walpole St Peter, Terrington St John, Walpole Highway, West Walton, Walton Highway, Wisbech, Emneth, Walsoken, Marshland St James and St Johns Fen End
  no warning on record since 2006 3.5 km
• Wash Frontage and the right bank of the Tidal Nene from Walton Dam to Admiralty Point, including Walpole Marsh, Walpole Cross Keys, Bellmount and Wingland Marsh
  no warning on record since 2006 5.2 km
• Sutton Bridge including West Bank, East Bank, Bridge Road, New Road, Garners Lane and Little Sutton
  no warning on record since 2006 6.5 km
• Wisbech including Leverington Road, Barton Road, Lynn Road, Mount Pleasant Road and Waterlees road
  no warning on record since 2006 7.0 km
• Eau Brink, Saddle Bow, the Wiggenhalls, Tilney St Lawrence, West Walton, Walpole St Peters, Walpole Highway, Watlington, Nordelph, Barroway Drive and Salters Lode
  no warning on record since 2006 7.2 km
• Wiggenhall St Mary The Virgin, Tilney St Lawrence, Tilney cum Islington, Tilney Fen End and Outwell
  no warning on record since 2006 7.8 km
• Areas near the tidal River Welland, tidal River Nene, and the Wash frontage from Fossdyke Wash to Terrington Marsh
  9 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2025 7.9 km
• Admiralty Point, Terrington St Clement, Clenchwarton, Tilney All Saints, Tilney High End, Walpole Cross Keys and Eau Brink
  no warning on record since 2006 8.1 km
• King's Lynn, West Lynn, Clenchwarton, Terrington St Clement, Walpole Cross Keys and Tilney All Saints
  44 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2025 8.2 km

Recorded floods near Walpole St Peter

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

• 11 Jan 1978 — LNA_1978_January_Tidal River Nene Other

Rainfall near Walpole St Peter

Walpole St Peter gets about 612 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 61 mm; driest March, 37 mm). That is 47% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.4 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (17.2 km away), recorded 3.4 mm in the last 24 hours and 40.8 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 29 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Walpole St Peter

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

Medium likelihood (12)

Very low likelihood (14)

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.