Environment Agency052WAFBOURNEast Anglia
Bourn Brook in Cambridgeshire: flood history since 2013
The Environment Agency has issued 36 flood alerts for Bourn Brook in Cambridgeshire since 24 Dec 2013, most often in January; the busiest year was 2014 (6).
Flood alerts only
The flood area
- Flood area
- Bourn Brook in Cambridgeshire
- Code
- 052WAFBOURN
- Environment Agency area
- East Anglia
- County
- Cambridgeshire
- River or sea
- Bourn Brook
- First in the history
- 24 Dec 2013
- Latest in the history file
- 26 Feb 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 6 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 26 Feb 2025 | Flood alert |
| 5 Jan 2025 | Flood alert |
| 1 Oct 2024 | Flood alert |
| 28 Apr 2024 | Flood alert |
| 4 Apr 2024 | Flood alert |
| 18 Feb 2024 | Flood alert |
| 9 Feb 2024 | Flood alert |
| 2 Jan 2024 | Flood alert |
| 9 Dec 2023 | Flood alert |
| 2 Nov 2023 | Flood alert |
| 20 Oct 2023 | Flood alert |
| 13 Oct 2023 | 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.