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Bumpstead Brook through Steeple Bumpstead to New England: flood history since 2019
The Environment Agency has issued 14 flood warnings for Bumpstead Brook through Steeple Bumpstead to New England since 20 Dec 2019, most often in January; the busiest year was 2021 (4).
Flood warnings on record
The flood area
- Flood area
- Bumpstead Brook through Steeple Bumpstead to New England
- Code
- 051FWFEF1A
- Environment Agency area
- East Anglia
- County
- Essex
- River or sea
- Bumpstead Brook
- First in the history
- 20 Dec 2019
- Latest in the history file
- 5 Jan 2025
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 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 2019 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 |
|---|---|
| 5 Jan 2025 | Flood warning |
| 18 Feb 2024 | Flood warning |
| 4 Jan 2024 | Flood warning |
| 2 Nov 2023 | Flood warning |
| 21 Oct 2023 | Flood warning |
| 3 Nov 2022 | Flood warning |
| 20 Feb 2022 | Flood warning |
| 10 Dec 2021 | Flood warning |
| 21 Oct 2021 | Flood warning |
| 25 Jul 2021 | Flood warning |
| 14 Jan 2021 | Flood warning |
| 3 Dec 2020 | 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.