Devizes Flood Risk
Devizes has no mapped rivers-and-sea flood risk: neither the national risk assessment nor the planning Flood Zone map covers it. That is not a statement that Devizes cannot flood — this figure covers rivers and the sea only, and surface water flooding is not included. The nearest gauge is 9.2 km away.
Devizes has 19,265 residents and 9,582 homes. Ranked equal 3078 of 7,114 — the places where the national risk assessment maps no rivers-and-sea exposure for any home, so the position is a tie rather than a low score.
What Is The River Level Near Devizes Right Now?
The nearest gauge is Melksham Clackers, 9.2 km from the centre of Devizes, at Melksham. Its typical range is 0 m to 0.6 m, and the highest level on record is 1.467 m, reached on 23 September 2024.
No current reading has been published for this gauge.
This river has too few gauges for its own page
When Has Devizes Flooded Before?
The Environment Agency holds 1 recorded flood outlines covering Devizes, the most recent dated 7 January 2014.
Absence of a record is not evidence that a place has never flooded — the Environment Agency states that a lack of coverage does not mean an area has never flooded.
What Does Devizes's Flood Risk Classification Mean?
0% of postcodes in Devizes sit in Flood Zone 3, the planning band for land with a 1% or greater annual chance of river flooding or 0.5% or greater of sea flooding — and the map that draws it deliberately ignores flood defences.
The flood risk band for rivers and the sea is not mapped here, which means the national assessment finds no rivers-and-sea exposure for Devizes's homes rather than a low amount of it. That is a statement about rivers and the sea only: surface water flooding is not included, and it is the larger source nationally.
Which Postcode Districts Cover Devizes?
Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Devizes. The band is the one shared by most of that district's postcodes, so it describes the district rather than a single street — enter a full postcode in the checker for one address. A district can cover more than one town, and the district pages linked from the checker are keyed to the town that holds most of its postcodes.
| Postcode district | Postcodes here | Rivers and sea band | Surface water addresses |
|---|---|---|---|
| SN10 | 571 | Low | 835 |