Sudbury Flood Risk
Sudbury 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 4.7 km away.
Sudbury has 23,388 residents and 11,411 homes. Ranked 2843 of 7,114 in England for rivers and sea flood risk.
What Is The River Level Near Sudbury Right Now?
The nearest gauge is Long Melford, 4.7 km from the centre of Sudbury, at Long Melford. Its typical range is 0.047 m to 0.72 m, and the highest level on record is 0.949 m, reached on 22 December 2002.
No current reading has been published for this gauge.
This river has too few gauges for its own page
When Has Sudbury Flooded Before?
The Environment Agency holds 1 recorded flood outlines covering Sudbury, the most recent dated 15 January 1968.
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 Sudbury's Flood Risk Classification Mean?
0.2% of postcodes in Sudbury 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 Sudbury?
Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Sudbury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CO10 | 585 | High | 3,538 |