Does Wisbech flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 373 postcodes in Wisbech 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 6,620 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 Wisbech

5 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Wisbech. The EA has issued no flood warning or alert for them since 2006 — the state of the warning record, not evidence the area has not flooded.

• Wisbech including Leverington Road, Barton Road, Lynn Road, Mount Pleasant Road and Waterlees road
  no warning on record since 2006 1.1 km
• 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 5.9 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 8.1 km
• Wiggenhall St Mary The Virgin, Tilney St Lawrence, Tilney cum Islington, Tilney Fen End and Outwell
  no warning on record since 2006 9.3 km
• Tidal River Nene from Dog-in-a-Doublet Sluice to Wisbech, including Guyhirn, Coldham and Begdale
  no warning on record since 2006 9.8 km

Recorded floods near Wisbech

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Wisbech, 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 Wisbech

Wisbech gets about 594 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 63 mm; driest March, 35 mm). That is 49% 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 (10.9 km away), recorded 3.0 mm in the last 24 hours and 38.4 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 32 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Wisbech

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

High likelihood (1)

Medium likelihood (370)

Low likelihood (2)

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.