Does Woking flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 116 postcodes in Woking 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 1,219 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 Woking

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Woking watch River Wey, Hoe Stream, East Clandon Stream, Rive Ditch, Addlestone Bourne, Mill Bourne, River Tillingbourne.

• Old Woking
  River Wey · 0.7 km away 2.29 m
  normal range · 52 min ago
• Woking South
  Hoe Stream · 1.7 km away 0.50 m
  normal range · falling · 52 min ago
• Newark Weir Structure
  River Wey · 3.0 km away 20.45 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 52 min ago
• Send
  East Clandon Stream · 3.8 km away 0.82 m
  normal range · 37 min ago
• West Byfleet Bridge
  Rive Ditch · 5.2 km away 1.68 m
  normal range · steady · 2 h ago
• Grants Bridge
  Addlestone Bourne · 5.7 km away No recent reading
  last reported 25 Oct 2026 22:00
• Millbourne Bridge
  Mill Bourne · 6.0 km away No recent reading
  last reported 25 Oct 2026 22:00
• Brooklands
  River Wey · 7.7 km away 0.96 m
  normal range · 37 min ago
• Guildford
  River Wey · 7.8 km away 1.31 m
  normal range · steady · 37 min ago
• Addlestone
  Addlestone Bourne · 9.3 km away 0.46 m
  normal range · 37 min ago
• Shalford
  River Tillingbourne · 9.3 km away 0.20 m
  normal range · 37 min ago
• Weybridge
  River Wey · 9.7 km away 1.04 m
  normal range · 37 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Woking'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 Woking

20 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Woking. The EA has issued 155 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 6 Feb 2026.

• The area of Woking benefiting from the Hoe Stream Flood Alleviation Scheme
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Jan 2024 0.7 km
• River Wey at Old Woking and properties around Lower Westfield, Surrey
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2024 1.7 km
• Hoe Stream at Woking including Mayford, Surrey
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2025 1.9 km
• Hoe Stream including Woking
  68 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 3.3 km
• East Clandon Stream at Send, Surrey
  no warning on record since 2006 3.5 km
• Lower River Wey including Old Woking, Byfleet, and Weybridge and the West Clandon Stream at Send
  25 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 4.3 km
• Mill Bourne at Emmetts Mill, Surrey
  no warning on record since 2006 4.6 km
• Hale Bourne and Addlestone Bourne at Chobham and Mimbridge, Surrey
  no warning on record since 2006 4.8 km
• Properties closest to the River Wey between Walsham Meadow and Byfleet town, including the Walsham Lock and Ockham Mill, Common Meadows and Plough Bridge areas of Byfleet
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2020 4.9 km
• Windle Brook and Hale, Mill and Addlestone Bournes including Bagshot, Windlesham, Lightwater, Chobham, West End, Emmetts Mill, Woodham and Addlestone
  37 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 5.4 km
• River Wey at Guildford, Riverside Park Nature Reserve and Jacobs Well, Surrey
  5 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2020 5.6 km
• Addlestone Bourne at Woodham including Rose Park Caravan Park, Surrey
  no warning on record since 2006 6.2 km

Recorded floods near Woking

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

• 13 Aug 2006 — 06August2006 Main river
• 23 Dec 2002 — 06JanuaryNewYear2003 Main river
• 1 Jan 2000 — 06DecemberWinter2000 Main river
• 1 Jan 1990 — 06FebruaryWinter1990 Main river
• 1 Jan 1974 — 06NovemberAutumn1974 Main river
• 1 Jan 1968 — 06SeptemberAutumn1968 Main river

Rainfall near Woking

Woking gets about 684 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 76 mm; driest March, 43 mm). That is 41% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.7 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (5.2 km away), recorded 0.0 mm in the last 24 hours and 62.5 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 37 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Woking

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

High likelihood (18)

Medium likelihood (9)

Low likelihood (43)

Very low likelihood (46)

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.