Does Winterborne Kingston flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 20 postcodes in Winterborne Kingston 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 114 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 Winterborne Kingston

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Winterborne Kingston watch River Piddle, River Winterbourne, River Stour, Piddle Brook.

• Briantspuddle
  River Piddle · 5.7 km away 0.21 m
  normal range · steady · 38 min ago
• Sturminster Marshall Maggs Bridge
  River Winterbourne · 8.4 km away 0.02 m
  normal range · steady · 38 min ago
• Blandford
  River Stour · 8.6 km away 0.27 m
  below normal · rising · 38 min ago
• Dewlish Woodsdown Cross
  Piddle Brook · 8.9 km away 0.08 m
  normal range · 53 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Winterborne Kingston'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 Winterborne Kingston

11 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Winterborne Kingston. The EA has issued 229 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 18 Mar 2026.

• Groundwater flooding on the Winterborne South of the A354 including Winterborne Whitechurch, Kingston, Muston, Anderson, Tomson, Zelston, Mapperton, Almer and Newton Peveril
  12 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2026 2.7 km
• Groundwater flooding for Bere Regis
  7 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2026 3.3 km
• Groundwater flooding for Hilton, Milton Abbas and Milborne St Andrew
  11 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2026 4.6 km
• Tributaries between Alton Pancras and Wareham
  64 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2026 5.7 km
• Alton Pancras, Piddletrenthide, Piddlehinton, Druce, Puddletown, Athelhampton, Affpuddle, Briantspuddle, Throop and Wareham including Purbeck View Park
  14 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 6.8 km
• Tributaries between Sturminster Newton and Wimborne
  94 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 6.8 km
• Groundwater flooding for Turnworth, Winterborne Stickland, Winterborne Houghton, Clenston, Whatcombe and Whitechurch
  16 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2026 7.6 km
• West Street in Shapwick
  no warning on record since 2006 8.7 km
• Groundwater flooding for the Devils Brook including Ansty, Cheselbourne and Dewlish
  11 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2026 9.0 km
• West Street, Shorts Lane, Barnack Walk, Market Place, Sheep Market Hill, East Street, Nightingale Court, Damory Street, River Mews and Langton Road in Blandford
  no warning on record since 2006 9.0 km
• Back Lane, Kings Street, Newton Road, Market Place, Front Lane, High Street, Blandford Road and Church Street in Sturminster Marshall
  no warning on record since 2006 9.1 km

Recorded floods near Winterborne Kingston

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

• 21 Oct 2021 — Spetisbury Oct 2021 Main river
• 9 Jan 2014 — Flood Extents_Winter 2013 to 2014 Main river
• 27 Dec 1979 — Dec 1979 Stour Main river

Rainfall near Winterborne Kingston

Winterborne Kingston gets about 978 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 123 mm; driest May, 54 mm). That is 16% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.5 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (10.4 km away), recorded 4.8 mm in the last 24 hours and 92.1 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 38 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Winterborne Kingston

Every postcode Ordnance Survey places in Winterborne Kingston 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 (6)

Low likelihood (4)

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.