Does Wimbledon flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 48 postcodes in Wimbledon 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 1,146 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 Wimbledon

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Wimbledon watch River Wandle, River Graveney, Beverley Brook, Pyl Brook.

• Summerstown
  River Wandle · 0.5 km away 1.06 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 25 min ago
• Wandle Park Main Channel
  River Wandle · 1.5 km away 0.33 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 25 min ago
• Wandle Park Side Channel
  River Wandle · 1.5 km away 0.34 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 25 min ago
• Longley Road Structure
  River Graveney · 1.6 km away 0.12 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 25 min ago
• Abercairn Road
  River Graveney · 3.6 km away 0.93 m
  normal range · steady · 25 min ago
• Wimbledon Common
  Beverley Brook · 4.5 km away 0.23 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 25 min ago
• New Malden
  Beverley Brook · 4.8 km away 0.78 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 25 min ago
• Kings College
  Pyl Brook · 4.9 km away 0.37 m
  normal range · 25 min ago
• Morden Park
  Pyl Brook · 5.0 km away 0.48 m
  normal range · steady · 25 min ago
• Motspur Park
  Beverley Brook · 5.7 km away 0.89 m
  normal range · rising · 25 min ago
• Barnes
  Beverley Brook · 5.7 km away 1.44 m
  normal range · steady · 25 min ago
• Hackbridge
  River Wandle · 6.5 km away 1.14 m
  below normal · steady · 25 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Wimbledon'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 Wimbledon

54 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Wimbledon. The EA has issued 1,308 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 26 Oct 2026.

• River Wandle at Wimbledon including Colliers Wood, Merton Abbey, Connollys Mill, Summerstown and Wimbledon Stadium, London Borough of Merton
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Sep 2024 1.3 km
• River Wandle at Wandsworth including King Georges Park and Earlsfield, London Boroughs of Wandsworth and Merton
  no warning on record since 2006 1.5 km
• River Graveney at Tooting and Colliers Wood, London Boroughs of Wandsworth and Merton
  no warning on record since 2006 1.7 km
• River Thames from Wandsworth Bridge to Putney Bridge including Wandsworth Centre
  no warning on record since 2006 3.2 km
• River Wandle area in the London Boroughs of Wandsworth, Merton, Lambeth, Croydon and Sutton. Including the Norbury Brook from Thornton Heath to Tooting
  51 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jul 2025 3.5 km
• River Wandle at Morden, including Morden Hall Park, London Borough of Merton
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2023 3.8 km
• Beverley Brook area, including the Pyl Brook, in the London Boroughs of Merton, Sutton, Kingston upon Thames, Richmond upon Thames and Wandsworth
  54 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jul 2025 3.8 km
• River Thames from Battersea Bridge to Wandsworth Bridge including west Battersea, Clapham Junction and east Wandsworth
  no warning on record since 2006 4.3 km
• River Thames from Battersea Bridge to Putney Bridge including Chelsea Harbour, Sands End, south Parsons Green and Hurlingham Park
  no warning on record since 2006 4.3 km
• Beverley Brook at Wimbledon Common and Richmond Park including Kingston Vale and Robin Hood Gate and Roehampton, London Boroughs of Kingston upon Thames and Merton
  no warning on record since 2006 4.6 km
• Pyl Brook at West Barnes, London Borough of Merton
  no warning on record since 2006 4.8 km
• Beverley Brook at Raynes Park Including Beverley Way and Malden Golf Course, London Boroughs of Kingston upon Thames and Merton
  no warning on record since 2006 4.9 km

Recorded floods near Wimbledon

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

• 14 Sep 1968 — 06SeptemberAutumn1968 Main river
• 1 Mar 1937 — 06MarchSpring1937 Main river
• 6 Jan 1928 — TTD_FEO_1928 Main river

Rainfall near Wimbledon

Wimbledon gets about 610 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 67 mm; driest March, 36 mm). That is 48% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.6 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (2.5 km away), recorded 1.7 mm in the last 24 hours and 56.9 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 25 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Wimbledon

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

High likelihood (10)

Medium likelihood (24)

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.