Swale, Ure, Nidd and Upper Ouse catchment
• High Houses • North Yorkshire • ID: F2290 • Level
(53m ago) • 4 readings/hr • 141 views
Set water level alerts
Get notified about Low Houses — tick as many as you like, they all share the notify settings below.
Alert me when (tick one or more)
⤴Unusual rise — FloodRadar+Top 1% rise rate for this gauge.
Height for "Above a height"
Drag the line on the chart, or type a value:m
Quick pick:
You'll be notified when this gauge is rising more than 0.10 m/hr — a sign of rapidly increasing water levels.
You'll be notified when a new storm-overflow (sewage) discharge starts within ~3 km of this gauge, based on the water companies' near-real-time feeds.
Get notified when recent rainfall near this gauge crosses its learnt rise trigger — an early "watch"
signal, typically hours before a rise. Experimental; not an official flood warning.
Notify by (tick one or more)
Your browser will ask permission, then you'll get a notification even when FloodRadar isn't open.
On iPhone: tap Share → Add to Home Screen first, then open it from there and set the alert.
Each one is saved as its own alert — pause or remove them individually any time.
Not an emergency service — if in danger call 999. Alerts rely on
EA/SEPA data and are best-efforts. Terms
Current Level
0.094 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.113 m
24h Min
0.094 m
Typical Range
0.07 - 0.60
m
Highest Recorded
1.55 m
2 Jan 1976
Since May 1972
Current level is 6% of this
🚽Sewage overflows nearby
Recent Water Levels
🌍 floodradar.co.uk
1 day
Prediction V2
Prediction Eris
Nimbus beta
Experimental model fusing soil moisture, river flow, groundwater and catchment
character. Shown with its calibrated 10–90% confidence band. Under evaluation —
not yet promoted, so treat as a second opinion.
River Flow
90 days
Daily mean discharge (m³/s) with the daily min–max band, from the EA Hydrology API. Flow is the volume of water passing the gauge — often a more direct flood signal than level.
Long Term
🌍 floodradar.co.uk
—
Consecutive rainy days0 → 10+
Days Above Normal
This year vs 5-year monthly range
Recent Readings
Falling · -0.3 cm over 6h
24 Aug 00:15▬ steady0.094 m
24 Aug 00:00▼ -0.1 cm0.094 m
23 Aug 23:45▬ steady0.095 m
23 Aug 23:30▬ steady0.095 m
23 Aug 23:15▬ steady0.095 m
23 Aug 23:00▬ steady0.095 m
23 Aug 22:45▬ steady0.095 m
23 Aug 22:30▼ -0.1 cm0.095 m
23 Aug 21:15▬ steady0.096 m
23 Aug 21:00▼ -0.1 cm0.096 m
23 Aug 20:45▬ steady0.097 m
23 Aug 20:30▬ steady0.097 m
23 Aug 20:15▬ steady0.097 m
23 Aug 20:00▬ steady0.097 m
23 Aug 19:45▬ steady0.097 m
23 Aug 19:30▬ steady0.097 m
23 Aug 19:15▬ steady0.097 m
23 Aug 19:00▬ steady0.097 m
23 Aug 18:45▬ steady0.097 m
23 Aug 18:300.097 m
Rainfall & Weather
Loading rainfall and weather data...
Flood history near this gauge
Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2023 for the 1 flood
area linked to this gauge (nearest 3.6 km away).
Warnings apply to a whole flood area, not necessarily this exact spot. Years before 2006 aren't covered by the EA's historic record.
See also the High Houses flood history.
Geographic coordinates may reflect the access point for the gauge, and not the precise location in the watercourse that it is taking readings from.
Catchment Character
🌊 Steep & flashySteep catchment sheds rain quickly — expect fast, sharp rises after heavy rain.
Your catchment is all the land that drains rainfall into the river above this gauge. Its character — how
steep, wet, wooded, urban or chalky that land is — decides how fast rain here turns into a rising river. A steep, bare or clay
catchment is “flashy” (rises and falls quickly, floods easily); a flat, chalk or well-wooded one is
slow and steady. The tiles below put numbers to that; the flow-duration curve reads left-to-right
from the river’s typical high flows (Q5) down to its low flows (Q95) — a steep curve means a flashy river.
The physical character of the land that drains to this gauge, and how it shapes its flood response — from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH).
Baseflow Index
0.31
flashy — rain runs off fast
Avg Annual Rainfall
1,947 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +10% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.0%
largely rural
Highest Recorded Flow
14.10 m³/s
5 Dec 2015
Flow-Duration Curve
Daily flow (m³/s) exceeded each % of the time — a steep curve is flashy, a flat one is steady. Q5 high · Q50 median · Q95 low.
Land Cover (2023)
Woodland 14%Grassland 78%Heath/scrub 8%
Heath/scrub 11% → 8% since 1990
About this gauge
Concrete flat-V weir in a steep, remote Pennine catchment.
More detail
The catchment
Wet, steep, remote catchment in the Pennines developed mainly on Carboniferous Limestone; some Millstone Grit on south-east boundary. Land use is mostly rough grazing. A habitat restoration project affecting a large proportion of the catchment began in 2023.
The station
Concrete flat-V weir replaced (in 1985) a limited capacity, wooden trapezoidal flume (installed late-1960s); structurefull now 0.95m.
How it measures flow
Bypassing now less common but still overtops structure several times per year. Also goes non-modular.
Flow regime
Flashy, natural regime. Systematic underestimation of rainfall (catch of ground-flush gauge exceeded standard raingauge by >10%) may contribute to unrealistic 'loss'. Also possibility of minor increase in runoff due to spring water deriving from outside the topographical catchment (see geology).
The flow record
Notable January 1995 peak caused by 80-100mm storm. Flows level off 20/12/10 to 27/12/10 when the river froze, data marked as suspect.
How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).
Gauge type
Flat-V weir
Operating since
1966
Station datum
260.0 mAOD
Flow record
1966–2024 · 58 yrs · 98% complete
Hydrometric area
27
Measured by
Environment Agency
Nearby Groundwater
Soil Moisture
Possible storm-overflow correlation
🚽 Storm overflows on this river
Frequently asked questions
Is the Snaizeholme Beck at Low Houses flooding today?
The current level is 0.09m, which is within the typical range of 0.07 to 0.60m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Low Houses?
Based on the most recent readings, the level is currently steady. The chart above shows the last 7 days of measurements, updated roughly every 15 minutes.
What is a normal level for the Snaizeholme Beck at Low Houses?
The typical range at this station is 0.07m to 0.60m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 0.60m are higher than usually seen and may indicate a flood risk.
How often is this river level data updated?
Readings are taken by the Environment Agency gauge roughly every 15 minutes and FloodRadar refreshes its data continuously, so the level shown is normally less than an hour old.
Embed this gauge on your website
Free live river-level widget — ideal for parish councils, angling clubs and local sites. Updates automatically.
Preview
📮 Flood risk by postcode near this gauge
Postcodes within 5 km with properties in the Environment Agency’s rivers-and-sea flood-risk bands:
