Does Walton-on-the-Naze flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 59 postcodes in Walton-on-the-Naze 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 861 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 Walton-on-the-Naze

4 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Walton-on-the-Naze. The EA has issued 14 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 5 Jan 2022.

• Walton on the Naze, from Walton Hall marshes to the Martello Caravan Park
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2017 1.4 km
• The marshland area around Hamford Water, from West End Lane in Dovercourt to the north of Kirby-le-Soken
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2022 5.2 km
• Holland Marshes, from Frinton Tennis Club and Golf Course to Valley Road in Holland-on-Sea
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Dec 2013 5.9 km
• The Parkeston Quay and the Ramsey River, including Harwich International Port
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2022 9.8 km

Recorded floods near Walton-on-the-Naze

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Walton-on-the-Naze, 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 — 2013 Flood Outline Sea
• 12 Jan 1968 — 1968 September Flood Outline Main river
• 1 Jun 1958 — 1958 Flood Outline Other
• 31 Jan 1953 — 1953 Coast Flood Outline Essex Sea

Rainfall near Walton-on-the-Naze

Walton-on-the-Naze gets about 556 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 61 mm; driest April, 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), 2.2 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (9.9 km away), recorded 0.0 mm in the last 24 hours and 0.0 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 36 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Walton-on-the-Naze

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

High likelihood (24)

Medium likelihood (1)

Low likelihood (15)

Very low likelihood (19)

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.