Meols Flood Risk
Meols has a Low flood risk from rivers and the sea , with 0.4% of homes in a Medium or High band. The nearest gauge is 0.7 km away.
Meols has 5,394 residents and 2,363 homes. Ranked 2491 of 7,114 in England for rivers and sea flood risk.
What Is The River Level Near Meols Right Now?
Read from the Environment Agency flood-monitoring feed at 20 Sept, 14:34 UTC. The highest level on record here is 1.57 m , reached on 21 January 2021.
Why Are Parts Of Meols In Flood Zone 3 But Rated Low Risk?
38.8% of postcodes in Meols 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.
What Does Meols's Flood Risk Classification Mean?
38.8% of postcodes in Meols 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 0.4% 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.
Meols 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 Meols?
Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Meols. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH47 | 170 | Low | 169 |
What Else Is Near Meols?
Other places on the River Birket, nearest to Meols first.