Environment Agency051FWCDV5B3EASTAEast Anglia
The Essex coast at Coalhouse Fort and surrounding marshland: flood history since 2020
The Environment Agency has issued 28 flood warnings for The Essex coast at Coalhouse Fort and surrounding marshland since 2 Oct 2020, most often in November; the busiest year was 2022 (14).
Flood warnings on record
The flood area
- Flood area
- The Essex coast at Coalhouse Fort and surrounding marshland
- Code
- 051FWCDV5B3EASTA
- Environment Agency area
- East Anglia
- County
- Thurrock
- River or sea
- Thames Estuary
- First in the history
- 2 Oct 2020
- Latest in the history file
- 8 Apr 2024
- Current status
- check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk (the Environment Agency's live page)
Flood alert, flood warning, severe flood warning: what each means
Source: Environment Agency, Historic Flood Warnings (England); Environment Agency flood-monitoring API. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
How many alerts and warnings a year?
Flood alerts, flood warnings and severe flood warnings (updates not counted), by year. 2026 runs to the end of June.
The numbers
| Year | Alerts | Warnings | Severe |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
Source: Environment Agency, Historic Flood Warnings (England); Environment Agency flood-monitoring API. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
When in the year?
All alerts and warnings since 2020 by month.
Source: Environment Agency, Historic Flood Warnings (England); Environment Agency flood-monitoring API. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Before July 2026: the latest in the history file
| Date | Level |
|---|---|
| 8 Apr 2024 | Flood warning |
| 15 Jan 2024 | Flood warning |
| 24 Nov 2023 | Flood warning |
| 29 Oct 2023 | Flood warning |
| 25 Dec 2022 | Flood warning |
| 8 Nov 2022 | Flood warning |
| 10 Oct 2022 | Flood warning |
| 26 Sep 2022 | Flood warning |
| 12 Sep 2022 | Flood warning |
| 10 Sep 2022 | Flood warning |
| 31 Mar 2022 | Flood warning |
| 31 Mar 2022 | Flood warning |
Source: Environment Agency, Historic Flood Warnings (England); Environment Agency flood-monitoring API. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.