Environment Agency051FWFEF1BEast Anglia
The Stour Brook from Haverhill to Sturmer: flood history since 2018
The Environment Agency has issued 16 flood warnings for The Stour Brook from Haverhill to Sturmer since 2 Apr 2018, most often in January; the busiest year was 2024 (5).
Flood warnings on record
The flood area
- Flood area
- The Stour Brook from Haverhill to Sturmer
- Code
- 051FWFEF1B
- Environment Agency area
- East Anglia
- County
- Essex, Suffolk
- River or sea
- Stour Brook
- First in the history
- 2 Apr 2018
- Latest in the history file
- 27 Jan 2026
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 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 2018 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 |
|---|---|
| 27 Jan 2026 | Flood warning |
| 5 Jan 2025 | Flood warning |
| 22 May 2024 | Flood warning |
| 18 Feb 2024 | Flood warning |
| 11 Feb 2024 | Flood warning |
| 9 Feb 2024 | Flood warning |
| 5 Jan 2024 | Flood warning |
| 2 Nov 2023 | Flood warning |
| 20 Oct 2023 | Flood warning |
| 25 Jul 2021 | Flood warning |
| 14 Jan 2021 | Flood warning |
| 24 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.