Does Yatton flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 40 postcodes in Yatton 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 551 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 Yatton

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Yatton watch Congresbury Yeo, Land Yeo.

• Congresbury
  Congresbury Yeo · 2.7 km away 5.71 mAOD
  normal range · steady · 1 h ago
• Iwood
  Congresbury Yeo · 4.2 km away 0.19 m
  normal range · 35 min ago
• Wraxall
  Land Yeo · 8.0 km away 0.26 m
  normal range · falling · 35 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Yatton'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 Yatton

13 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Yatton. The EA has issued 172 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 7 Apr 2026.

• Wick St Lawrence to the west to Riverside near Banwell to the south and Station Road at Congresbury to the east including Puxton and Hewish. Horsecastle Farm and The Batch areas at Yatton to Kenn Road to the north including Kenn
  no warning on record since 2006 2.2 km
• Wrington Bridge to Withydale Farm including Beam Bridge, Moor Bridge, Weston Road and Old Weston Road
  no warning on record since 2006 2.6 km
• Stonewell Park Road, Stonewell Grove, Stonewell Drive, The Causeway, Pauls Causeway, High Street, Broad Street, Bridge Farm Square and Station Road
  no warning on record since 2006 2.9 km
• Hippisleys Farm area and Bourton to the south to Lower Strode Road and Colehouse Lane to the north including Middle Lane, Lampley Road and Kingston Seymour
  no warning on record since 2006 3.1 km
• Coastline between Sand Point and Gullhouse Point including Ham Lane, Back Lane, Yeo Back Lane and Icelton
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2020 4.2 km
• Yeolands Drive to the Blind Yeo river to the south and Southern Way to the north including Strode Sports Centre. Kenn Road to Clevedon Moor to the east and Tickenham Road to the north including Yeo Moor Schools and Hither Green Industrial Estate
  no warning on record since 2006 4.3 km
• Coastline between Gullhouse Point and Marine Parade
  116 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Apr 2026 4.3 km
• Marshalls Field area to Fosseway and Churchill Avenue to the east to Old Church Road to the north including Strode Road and Tweed Road Industrial Estate
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2020 4.9 km
• Coastline between Gullhouse Point and Marine Parade including the Marine Lake, Elton Road and The Beach
  50 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Apr 2026 5.5 km
• Court Road, Myrtle Tree Crescent, St Bridges Close and Sand Farm Lane in Kewstoke and Sand Bay to Kewside and Lower Norton Lane to the south and Collum Lane to the east
  no warning on record since 2006 8.0 km
• Milton Road, Worle High Street and Ebdon Road in the north to Broadway and Locking in the south. St Georges and West Wick in the east to the A3033 Drove Road in the west including the Hutton Moor area, Weston Village and Locking Castle
  no warning on record since 2006 8.7 km
• Portbury Wharf to Bristol Road and Portbury Common to the south of Portishead including The Marina, Harbour Road, Wyndham Way and the Fennel Road area. Clapton Lane, Moor Lane and Clapton Moor in the Gordano Valley area
  no warning on record since 2006 9.3 km

Recorded floods near Yatton

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Yatton, 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 Nov 2012 — Congresbury, Brinsea_Nov 2012 Ordinary watercourse
• 21 Nov 2012 — Congresbury_Nov 2012 Drainage
• 21 Nov 2012 — Claverham_Nov 2012 Ordinary watercourse
• 21 Nov 2012 — Wrington_Nov 2012 Ordinary watercourse
• 21 Nov 2012 — Wrington_Nov2012 Ordinary watercourse
• 21 Nov 2012 — Test shape Main river
• 20 Nov 2012 — Nov 2012 Floods Ordinary watercourse
• 24 Sep 2012 — EA112_Congresbury Yeo_Congresbury_2012 Main river
• 24 Sep 2012 — EA112_NMR_Wrington_2012 Ordinary watercourse
• 11 Jan 2008 — EA112_Wrington_BeamBridge Main river
• 11 Jan 2008 — EA112_Wrington_GarstonsClose Ordinary watercourse
• 13 Dec 1981 — EA112_Coastal_DowlaisFm_Clevedon_1981 Sea

…and 5 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Yatton

Yatton gets about 885 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 95 mm; driest April, 53 mm). That is 24% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.3 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (5.5 km away), recorded 8.0 mm in the last 24 hours and 79.6 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 35 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Yatton

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

High likelihood (1)

Low likelihood (5)

Very low likelihood (34)

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.