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Evesham

Avon
Warwickshire Avon catchment • Evesham • Worcestershire • ID: 2002 • Level
(35m ago) • 4 readings/hr • 206 views

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Current Level
0.456 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.474 mASD
24h Min
0.431 mASD
Typical Range
0.46 - 1.90
mASD
Highest Recorded
5.52 mASD
21 Jul 2007
Since Dec 1969
Current level is 8% of this
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Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Steady over 6h
24 Aug 00:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.456 mASD
24 Aug 00:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.457 mASD
23 Aug 23:45 ▬ steady 0.458 mASD
23 Aug 23:30 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.458 mASD
23 Aug 23:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.459 mASD
23 Aug 23:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.460 mASD
23 Aug 22:45 ▼ -0.7 cm 0.461 mASD
23 Aug 21:30 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.468 mASD
23 Aug 21:15 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.470 mASD
23 Aug 21:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.472 mASD
23 Aug 20:45 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.473 mASD
23 Aug 20:30 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.474 mASD
23 Aug 20:15 ▲ +0.7 cm 0.473 mASD
23 Aug 20:00 ▲ +0.5 cm 0.466 mASD
23 Aug 19:45 ▲ +0.4 cm 0.461 mASD
23 Aug 19:30 ▬ steady 0.457 mASD
23 Aug 19:15 ▬ steady 0.457 mASD
23 Aug 19:00 ▬ steady 0.457 mASD
23 Aug 18:45 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.457 mASD
23 Aug 18:30 0.456 mASD

Rainfall & Weather

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Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2008 for the 14 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 0.8 km away).

113flood warnings 65flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 13 Feb 2026River Avon at Wyre Piddle

Year by year
YearWarningsAlerts
2026 2 4
2025 9 5
2024 25 10
2023 6 2
2021 7 3
2020 10 5
2019 15 4
2018 3 2
2017 1 2
2016 6 7
2015 0 1
2014 6 3
2013 6 3
2012 17 7
2010 0 1
2008 0 6

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 Evesham flood history.

Nearby Stations

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Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Evesham
  • Watercourse: River Avon
  • Nearest Town: Evesham
  • County: Worcestershire
  • Coordinates: 52°5'32"N 1°56'34"W (52.092165, -1.942876)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 1 Dec 1936
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station
  • Station Reference: 2002
  • EA Gauge ID: 2002-level-stage-i-15_min-mASD
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: mASD
  • Typical rise rate: 3 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
  • Typical data delay: ~22 min (measured reading→publication lag)
  • Tidal: No
  • Lock / structure: No
  • Catchment Area: Warwickshire Avon
  • Typical Range: 0.460 – 1.900 mASD
  • Drainage Area: 2,210 km² upstream of this gauge
  • Flow Data: Available (m³/s) via EA Hydrology
  • EA Cross-check: 0.46 mASD (EA at 24 Aug 00:15)
  • Flow Archive: National River Flow Archive ↗

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

🌊 Fairly flashy Responds fairly quickly to rain, with moderate baseflow between events.

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
0.40
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
685 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +2% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
4.9%
partly urbanised
Median Annual Flood
177 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Recorded Flow
411 m³/s
21 Jul 2007
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 16.1456.708.772.975% (high)% of days exceeded95% (low)
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 6%Grassland 43%Arable 38%Urban 12%Other 1%
Arable 44% → 38% since 1990

Flow affected by: surface-water abstraction, public water supply, groundwater abstraction, effluent returns, industrial / agricultural abstraction.

Photos

Gauging-station photographs from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH).

Photos © NRFA / UKCEH & the measuring authority — shown at web resolution. Full gallery on the NRFA ↗

About this gauge

Velocity area station with gauge site can measure out-of-bank flows providing lengthy historical series of flood peaks.

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The catchment

Large catchment of low relief, draining argillaceous rocks almost exclusively. Contains some large towns, but chief land use is agriculture.

The station

Velocity area station with gauge site can measure out-of-bank flows.

How it measures flow

Bed not stable with lots of silt that shifts; bed can move by up to 2m. Main control is Chadbury weir, sluices and lock approx. 4.5km downstream. Earlier in record gaugings were taken at Hampton Parks cableway 2.5km downstream, below confluence with River Isbourne. Gaugings taken at the same day at Hinton were subtracted from this to estimate flow at Evesham. There have been some errors found in these calculations for the earlier gaugings. Now majority of gaugings taken just downstream of the Evesham Workman Bridge above confluence with River Isbourne. Navigation control at lock downstream. Low flow velocities can make gauging difficult. Ratings fit spot gaugings very well including at medium to high flows above bankfull. Coarse early low flow record owing to crude rating. Gauging site/s can measure out-of-bank flows.

Flow regime

Extensive modification to flow regime from abstractions and returns. At low flows influenced by navigation - reach is impounded with locking.

The flow record

Coarse early low flow record owing to crude rating. Pre 1937 data appear to be peaks over a high threshold that gives an event every few years and therefore should be used with caution. Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in September 2019 (WINFAP Files v8).

Descriptions from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH). NRFA station record ↗

Gauge Details

How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).

Gauge type
Velocity–area
Operating since
1936
Station datum
19.5 mAOD
Flow record
1936–2024 · 88 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1848
Hydrometric area
54
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the River Avon at Evesham flooding today?

The current level is 0.46m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Evesham?

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 River Avon at Evesham?

The typical range at this station is 0.46m to 1.90m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 1.90m 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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