Environment Agency052WATCSTHKLEast Anglia
Coast from Heacham to north of King's Lynn: flood history since 2019
The Environment Agency has issued 49 flood alerts for Coast from Heacham to north of King's Lynn since 31 Aug 2019, most often in October; the busiest year was 2023 (10). The history file ends in June 2026; AreaZine's record of the live feed adds 1 since 1 July 2026.
Flood alerts only
The flood area
- Flood area
- Coast from Heacham to north of King's Lynn
- Code
- 052WATCSTHKL
- Environment Agency area
- East Anglia
- County
- Norfolk
- River or sea
- North Sea
- First in the history
- 31 Aug 2019
- Latest in the history file
- 23 Oct 2025
- Latest in AreaZine's record
- Flood alert, 14 Aug 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.
The latest: since 1 July 2026, in AreaZine's record of the live feed
| Date | Level |
|---|---|
| 14 Aug 2026 | Flood alert |
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 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 3 | 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 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 |
|---|---|
| 23 Oct 2025 | Flood alert |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Flood alert |
| 8 Oct 2025 | Flood alert |
| 7 Oct 2025 | Flood alert |
| 9 Sep 2025 | Flood alert |
| 30 Mar 2025 | Flood alert |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Flood alert |
| 2 Mar 2025 | Flood alert |
| 1 Mar 2025 | Flood alert |
| 15 Nov 2024 | Flood alert |
| 18 Oct 2024 | Flood alert |
| 17 Oct 2024 | 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.