Does Woodmansey flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 21 postcodes in Woodmansey 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 709 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 Woodmansey

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Woodmansey watch Beverley and Barmston Drain, River Hull, Broadlane Beck, Holderness Drain, Setting Dyke, Monk Dyke.

• Beverley Waterside Pumping Station Structure
  Beverley and Barmston Drain · 1.8 km away -0.45 mAOD
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 27 min ago
• Beverley Shipyard Tidal
  River Hull · 2.3 km away 1.77 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 27 min ago
• Cottingham Hallgate
  Broadlane Beck · 5.0 km away 0.08 m
  normal range · steady · 27 min ago
• Tickton PS Structure
  Holderness Drain · 5.2 km away -1.95 mAOD
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 27 min ago
• Bransholme Great Culvert Pumping Station Structure
  Holderness Drain · 5.8 km away -2.32 mAOD
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 27 min ago
• North Hull National Avenue
  Setting Dyke · 7.0 km away 0.25 m
  normal range · steady · 27 min ago
• North Hull Birdsall Avenue
  Setting Dyke · 7.1 km away 0.08 m
  normal range · steady · 27 min ago
• Stoneferry Bridge Tidal
  River Hull · 7.4 km away 1.52 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 27 min ago
• Riston Pumping Station Structure
  Monk Dyke · 7.5 km away 0.08 mAOD
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 27 min ago
• Hull High Flaggs, Lincoln Street Tidal
  River Hull · 8.8 km away -0.59 m
  rises and falls with the tide · 27 min ago
• Wilfholme PS Tidal
  River Hull · 9.5 km away 1.92 mAOD
  rises and falls with the tide · 27 min ago
• Wilfholme PS Structure
  Beverley and Barmston Drain · 9.5 km away -0.57 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 27 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Woodmansey'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 Woodmansey

38 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Woodmansey. The EA has issued 201 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 30 Aug 2026.

• Areas around Thearne, including remote properties along the A1174
  no warning on record since 2006 0.9 km
• Areas to the east of Beverley
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Feb 2021 2.3 km
• Properties along Dunswell Lane in Dunswell and around Manor Farm
  no warning on record since 2006 2.5 km
• Properties along the A1174 in Dunswell and Thearne
  no warning on record since 2006 2.9 km
• The central River Hull area including Arram, Tickton, Beverley, and Dunswell
  33 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 3.2 km
• Properties at and around Tickton and Weel between the River Hull and the Holdeness Drain, including farms south of Weel in the Stone Carr area
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Apr 2018 3.3 km
• Properties in the northern area of Orchard Park
  no warning on record since 2006 3.7 km
• Properties in Kingswood, Ash Bank and western area of Midmeredales
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Feb 2020 3.8 km
• Properties in the Orchard Park, New Village and North Moor areas
  no warning on record since 2006 4.3 km
• Properties around King St, Northgate, Dunswell Rd, and North Moor Ln
  11 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2023 4.3 km
• Isolated properties at Wawne Common, Woody Carr and North's Bridge
  14 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2025 4.5 km
• Properties along Eppleworth Rd, Green Lane, St Margaret's Ave, Dene Rd, West End Rd, Crescent St
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Oct 2023 5.1 km

Recorded floods near Woodmansey

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

• 3 Jan 2024 — January 2024 - Storm Henk - Recorded Flood Outline Main river
• 15 Feb 2020 — 2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis Drainage
• 8 Feb 2020 — 2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Ciara Main river
• 7 Nov 2019 — 2019 November Flood Incident Main river
• 31 Mar 2018 — 2018 Apr-River Hull. Froddingham (Old Howe) Breach Main river
• 25 Jun 2007 — June 2007 Flood Event (Hull and East Riding) River
• 15 Jun 2007 — 123JUN2007SW0003 Other
• 15 Jun 2007 — June 2007 Surface Water Flooding Yorkshire Other
• 21 Jan 1969 — 123 January 1969 - R.Hull Main river
• 21 Jan 1969 — 123 January 1969 Drainage

Rainfall near Woodmansey

Woodmansey gets about 666 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 68 mm; driest March, 40 mm). That is 43% 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 (5.1 km away), recorded 0.0 mm in the last 24 hours and 5.2 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 28 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Woodmansey

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

High likelihood (4)

Low likelihood (1)

Very low likelihood (16)

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.