Steyning Flood Risk
Steyning has a Low flood risk from rivers and the sea , with 0.1% of homes in a Medium or High band. The nearest gauge is 1.6 km away.
Steyning has 5,042 residents and 2,529 homes. Ranked 2859 of 7,114 in England for rivers and sea flood risk.
What Is The River Level Near Steyning Right Now?
The nearest gauge is Beeding Bridge, 1.6 km from the centre of Steyning, at Upper Beeding. Its typical range is 0.353 m to 2.84 m, and the highest level on record is 3.35 m, reached on 6 December 2013.
No current reading has been published for this gauge.
When Has Steyning Flooded Before?
The Environment Agency holds 2 recorded flood outlines covering Steyning, the most recent dated 11 October 1980.
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 Steyning's Flood Risk Classification Mean?
0% of postcodes in Steyning 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 0.1% 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.
Which Postcode Districts Cover Steyning?
Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Steyning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BN44 | 130 | Low | 167 |
What Else Is Near Steyning?
Other places on the River Adur, nearest to Steyning first.