Ripon Flood Risk
Ripon has a Low flood risk from rivers and the sea , with 1.3% of homes in a Medium or High band. The nearest gauge is 0.6 km away.
Ripon has 16,329 residents and 8,192 homes. Ranked 1666 of 7,114 in England for rivers and sea flood risk.
What Is The River Level Near Ripon Right Now?
Read from the Environment Agency flood-monitoring feed at 20 Sept, 14:34 UTC. The highest level on record here is 1.816 m , reached on 15 June 2007.
When Has Ripon Flooded Before?
The Environment Agency holds 8 recorded flood outlines covering Ripon, the most recent dated 15 November 2000.
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 Ripon's Flood Risk Classification Mean?
4.4% of postcodes in Ripon 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 1.3% 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 Ripon?
Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Ripon. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HG4 | 452 | Low | 982 |