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Heysham

Name: Heysham River Level Data
Creator: FloodRadar

Tide 🌊 Tidal

England - West Coast catchment • Heysham • Lancashire • ID: E73439 • Level

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This gauge is tidally influenced — levels rise and fall with each tide, so rapid changes here are normal and don't necessarily indicate flooding.

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Current Level

-3.416 mAOD

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24h Max

3.905 mAOD

24h Min

-3.416 mAOD

Typical Range

Highest Recorded

6.33 mAOD

EA official record

5.84 in our data (since Feb 2025)

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Recent Water Levels

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Flood predictions aren't generated for tidal gauges — their levels are driven by the tide, not by catchment rainfall, so the forecast models would have no skill here.

Recent Readings

Falling · -583 cm over 9h

08 Oct 04:45 ▼▼ -6 cm -3.416 mAOD

08 Oct 04:30 ▼▼ -20 cm -3.360 mAOD

08 Oct 04:00 ▼▼ -74 cm -3.161 mAOD

08 Oct 03:00 ▼▼ -57 cm -2.420 mAOD

08 Oct 02:30 ▼▼ -34 cm -1.846 mAOD

08 Oct 02:15 ▼▼ -196 cm -1.503 mAOD

08 Oct 01:00 ▼▼ -41 cm 0.459 mAOD

08 Oct 00:45 ▼▼ -42 cm 0.867 mAOD

08 Oct 00:30 ▼▼ -42 cm 1.287 mAOD

08 Oct 00:15 ▼▼ -38 cm 1.703 mAOD

08 Oct 00:00 ▼▼ -74 cm 2.086 mAOD

07 Oct 23:30 ▼▼ -105 cm 2.828 mAOD

07 Oct 22:15 ▼ -3 cm 3.874 mAOD

07 Oct 22:00 ▲▲ +14 cm 3.905 mAOD

07 Oct 21:30 ▲▲ +17 cm 3.765 mAOD

07 Oct 21:15 ▲▲ +22 cm 3.594 mAOD

07 Oct 21:00 ▲▲ +27 cm 3.372 mAOD

07 Oct 20:45 ▲▲ +32 cm 3.101 mAOD

07 Oct 20:30 ▲▲ +37 cm 2.780 mAOD

07 Oct 20:15 2.409 mAOD

Station Details

Monitoring Station: Heysham
Watercourse: Tide
Nearest Town: Heysham
County: Lancashire
Coordinates: 54°1'54"N 2°55'13"W (54.031798, -2.920253)
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Date Opened: 2 Dec 2011
Status: Active
Station Type: Tidal / coastal station

Technical details: references, datum, range, flow archive

Station Reference: E73439
RLOI id: 5067 (the EA's check-for-flooding station id)
EA Gauge ID: E73439-anglian-level-tidal_level-Mean-15_min-mAOD
Parameter: Level
Unit: mAOD
Typical rise rate: 228 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
Typical data delay: ~37 min (measured reading→publication lag)
Tidal: 🌊 Yes — levels follow the tide
Lock / structure: No
Catchment Area: England - West Coast
EA Cross-check: -3.42 mAOD (EA at 8 Oct 04:45)

Geographic coordinates may reflect the access point for the gauge, and not the precise location in the watercourse that it is taking readings from.

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Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2006 for the 19 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 0.4 km away).

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Most recent flood warning: 25 Mar 2026 — Burrow Beck at Lancaster, around Canterbury Ave, Cranwell Ave and Bowerham Road

Year by year

Year	Warnings	Alerts
2026	7	5
2025	3	20
2024	17	45
2023	3	11
2022	0	12
2021	0	23
2020	19	49
2019	2	13
2018	4	10
2017	3	3
2016	4	14
2015	8	24
2014	12	30
2013	3	3
2012	5	4
2011	2	5
2010	0	2
2008	0	5
2007	0	4
2006	0	22

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 Heysham flood history.

Flood areas linked to this gauge

Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. These are the 19 areas linked to this gauge, nearest first.

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