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Current Level
0.108 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.113 mASD
24h Min
0.093 mASD
Typical Range
0.12 - 0.90
mASD
Highest Recorded
2.50 mASD
9 Jan 1992
Since Oct 1988
Current level is 4% of this
🚽Sewage overflows nearby
Recent Water Levels
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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
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Consecutive rainy days0 → 10+
Days Above Normal
This year vs 5-year monthly range
Recent Readings
Rising · +0.3 cm over 6h
24 Aug 00:00▬ steady0.108 mASD
23 Aug 23:45▬ steady0.108 mASD
23 Aug 23:30▲ +0.1 cm0.108 mASD
23 Aug 23:15▲ +0.1 cm0.107 mASD
23 Aug 23:00▬ steady0.106 mASD
23 Aug 22:45▲ +0.1 cm0.106 mASD
23 Aug 21:30▲ +0.1 cm0.105 mASD
23 Aug 21:15▼ -0.1 cm0.104 mASD
23 Aug 21:00▲ +0.1 cm0.105 mASD
23 Aug 20:45▬ steady0.104 mASD
23 Aug 20:30▲ +0.1 cm0.104 mASD
23 Aug 20:15▼ -0.1 cm0.103 mASD
23 Aug 20:00▬ steady0.104 mASD
23 Aug 19:45▬ steady0.104 mASD
23 Aug 19:30▬ steady0.104 mASD
23 Aug 19:15▬ steady0.104 mASD
23 Aug 19:00▬ steady0.104 mASD
23 Aug 18:45▬ steady0.104 mASD
23 Aug 18:30▼ -0.1 cm0.104 mASD
23 Aug 18:150.105 mASD
Rainfall & Weather
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Flood history near this gauge
Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2012 for the 3 flood
areas linked to this gauge (nearest 1.0 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 Bishops Frome 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
🌊 Mixed responseA balance of quick runoff and slower groundwater baseflow.
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
0.57
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
791 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +6% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
1.3%
largely rural
Highest Recorded Flow
88.92 m³/s
30 Dec 1981
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 5%Grassland 57%Arable 35%Urban 3%
About this gauge
A Flat V Crump weir which replaced a previous station in 1975.
More detail
The catchment
Natural catchment. Impermeable bedrock geology, headwaters cutting into ORS of Bromyard plateau. In NE area of Wye catchment, which is drier than other areas to W. Superficial deposits confined to valleys. Mixed arable and pasture farming.
The station
Flat V Crump profile weir 5m wide, replaced velocity-area station in 1975. Cableway span 10m.
How it measures flow
Steep banks do not contain flood flows; some throttling by d/s road bridge whose soffit is below bankfull.
How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).
Gauge type
Flat-V weir
Operating since
1971
Station datum
75.7 mAOD
Flow record
1971–2024 · 53 yrs · 90% complete
Hydrometric area
55
Measured by
Environment Agency
Nearby Groundwater
Soil Moisture
Possible storm-overflow correlation
🚽 Storm overflows on this river
Frequently asked questions
Is the River Frome (Wye) at Bishops Frome flooding today?
The current level is 0.11m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Bishops Frome?
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.
Why is the level slowly falling?
When little or no rain has fallen for a while, a river level gradually drops as the water stored in the ground and soil drains away with nothing to replace it. This is called baseflow recession and is normal in dry spells. Only about 2.8mm of rain has fallen nearby in the last 7 days, so the flow is being sustained mainly by groundwater. A gentle decline like this is expected and is not a sign of a problem — downstream gauges often recede a little faster than headwaters further upstream, and levels recover once rain returns.
What is a normal level for the River Frome (Wye) at Bishops Frome?
The typical range at this station is 0.12m to 0.90m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 0.90m 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.
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Postcodes within 5 km with properties in the Environment Agency’s rivers-and-sea flood-risk bands:
