Kendal Flood Risk
Kendal has a Low flood risk from rivers and the sea , with 3.1% of homes in a Medium or High band. The nearest gauge is 0.4 km away.
Kendal has 28,399 residents and 15,327 homes. Ranked 1076 of 7,114 in England for rivers and sea flood risk.
What Is The River Level Near Kendal Right Now?
Read from the Environment Agency flood-monitoring feed at 20 Sept, 14:34 UTC. The highest level on record here is 0.42 m , reached on 21 January 2024.
Why Are Parts Of Kendal In Flood Zone 3 But Rated Low Risk?
10.4% of postcodes in Kendal fall in Flood Zone 3, but the flood risk band for rivers and the sea is low. The two maps measure different things: the Flood Zone ignores defences, and the band counts them.
When Has Kendal Flooded Before?
The Environment Agency holds 8 recorded flood outlines covering Kendal, the most recent dated 7 December 2015.
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 Kendal's Flood Risk Classification Mean?
10.4% of postcodes in Kendal 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 Low , with 3.1% of homes in a Medium or High band. Unlike the Flood Zone, the band counts the defences that are actually in place, which is why the two can describe the same street differently and both be right.
Kendal is one of the places where they disagree most in England: a large share of its postcodes are in Flood Zone 3, yet few of its homes carry a Medium or High band. The gap is the defences — land the planning map must treat as floodplain, behind a barrier that lowers the present-day chance of flooding.
Which Postcode Districts Cover Kendal?
Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Kendal. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LA9 | 766 | Low | 1,496 |