Environment Agency052WAFALCFormer flood area
Alconbury Brook and Ellington Brook in Cambridgeshire: flood history since 2013
The Environment Agency has issued 33 flood alerts for Alconbury Brook and Ellington Brook in Cambridgeshire since 24 Dec 2013, most often in January; the busiest year was 2014 (9).
Flood alerts only
The flood area
- Flood area
- Alconbury Brook and Ellington Brook in Cambridgeshire
- Code
- 052WAFALC
- Environment Agency area
- none today (the history file lists it under ANG - Central)
- First in the history
- 24 Dec 2013
- Latest in the history file
- 6 Feb 2021
- Current status
- no longer an Environment Agency flood area (not in its register of 1 Oct 2026)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 1 | 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 2013 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 |
|---|---|
| 6 Feb 2021 | Flood alert |
| 27 Jan 2021 | Flood alert |
| 20 Jan 2021 | Flood alert |
| 14 Jan 2021 | Flood alert |
| 23 Dec 2020 | Flood alert |
| 4 Dec 2020 | Flood alert |
| 16 Feb 2020 | Flood alert |
| 15 Jan 2020 | Flood alert |
| 8 Jan 2020 | Flood alert |
| 20 Dec 2019 | Flood alert |
| 12 Dec 2019 | Flood alert |
| 14 Nov 2019 | 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.