Salisbury Flood Risk
Salisbury has a Low flood risk from rivers and the sea , with 4.9% of homes in a Medium or High band. The nearest gauge is 0.4 km away.
Salisbury has 46,925 residents and 22,501 homes. Ranked 805 of 7,114 in England for rivers and sea flood risk.
What Is The River Level Near Salisbury Right Now?
Read from the Environment Agency flood-monitoring feed at 20 Sept, 14:34 UTC. The highest level on record here is 1.359 m , reached on 6 January 2014.
When Has Salisbury Flooded Before?
The Environment Agency holds 5 recorded flood outlines covering Salisbury, the most recent dated 6 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 Salisbury's Flood Risk Classification Mean?
6.9% of postcodes in Salisbury 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 4.9% 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 Salisbury?
Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Salisbury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SP1 | 622 | Low | 567 |
| SP2 | 599 | Low | 623 |
| SP5 | 5 | Low | 1 |
What Else Is Near Salisbury?
Other places on the River Avon, nearest to Salisbury first.