Stowmarket Flood Risk
Stowmarket 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 1.2 km away.
Stowmarket has 21,199 residents and 10,476 homes. Ranked 2830 of 7,114 in England for rivers and sea flood risk.
What Is The River Level Near Stowmarket Right Now?
The nearest gauge is Stowmarket, 1.2 km from the centre of Stowmarket, at Combs Ford. Its typical range is 0.13 m to 0.97 m, and the highest level on record is 1.753 m, reached on 20 October 2023.
No current reading has been published for this gauge.
This river has too few gauges for its own page
What Does Stowmarket's Flood Risk Classification Mean?
0.4% of postcodes in Stowmarket 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 Stowmarket?
Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Stowmarket. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IP14 | 521 | High | 1,774 |
| IP6 | 2 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
"Not mapped" is not "no risk". It means no rivers-and-sea band covers that district in the source — surface water can still flood it, and both Camden and Islington flooded from surface water in July 2021 while carrying no mapped rivers-and-sea band.