Melksham Flood Risk
Melksham has a Low flood risk from rivers and the sea , with 0.6% of homes in a Medium or High band. The nearest gauge is 1.2 km away.
Melksham has 18,288 residents and 8,551 homes. Ranked 2236 of 7,114 in England for rivers and sea flood risk.
What Is The River Level Near Melksham Right Now?
The nearest gauge is Melksham Clackers, 1.2 km from the centre of Melksham, 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 Melksham Flooded Before?
The Environment Agency holds 10 recorded flood outlines covering Melksham, the most recent dated 6 March 1978.
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 Melksham's Flood Risk Classification Mean?
0.4% of postcodes in Melksham 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 0.6% 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.
Which Postcode Districts Cover Melksham?
Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Melksham. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SN12 | 446 | Low | 1,150 |