Environment Agency051WACDV5AEast Anglia
The Essex coast from Shoeburyness, to and including Southend seafront, including Southchurch Park: flood history since 2008
The Environment Agency has issued 16 flood alerts for The Essex coast from Shoeburyness, to and including Southend seafront, including Southchurch Park since 22 Mar 2008, most often in January; the busiest year was 2013 (4).
Flood alerts only
The flood area
- Flood area
- The Essex coast from Shoeburyness, to and including Southend seafront, including Southchurch Park
- Code
- 051WACDV5A
- Environment Agency area
- East Anglia
- County
- Southend-on-Sea
- River or sea
- Thames Estuary
- First in the history
- 22 Mar 2008
- Latest in the history file
- 27 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 4 | 0 | 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 2008 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 2025 | Flood alert |
| 8 Apr 2024 | Flood alert |
| 15 Jan 2024 | Flood alert |
| 24 Nov 2023 | Flood alert |
| 21 Feb 2022 | Flood alert |
| 5 Jan 2022 | Flood alert |
| 4 Jan 2022 | Flood alert |
| 19 Nov 2020 | Flood alert |
| 10 May 2020 | Flood alert |
| 9 Feb 2020 | Flood alert |
| 29 Sep 2019 | Flood alert |
| 13 Jan 2017 | Flood alert |
Source: Environment Agency, Historic Flood Warnings (England); Environment Agency flood-monitoring API. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.