Environment Agency054FWCDV3C1East Anglia
The Suffolk coast at Southwold: flood history since 2011
The Environment Agency has issued 18 flood warnings and 2 severe flood warnings for The Suffolk coast at Southwold since 27 Nov 2011, most often in January; the busiest year was 2017 (3).
Severe flood warnings on record
The flood area
- Flood area
- The Suffolk coast at Southwold
- Code
- 054FWCDV3C1
- Environment Agency area
- East Anglia
- County
- Suffolk
- River or sea
- River Blyth, North Sea
- First in the history
- 27 Nov 2011
- Latest in the history file
- 4 Oct 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 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2011 | 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 2011 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 |
|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2025 | Flood warning |
| 19 Dec 2024 | Flood warning |
| 19 Dec 2024 | Flood warning |
| 24 Jan 2024 | Flood warning |
| 21 Dec 2023 | Flood warning |
| 24 Nov 2023 | Flood warning |
| 6 Feb 2022 | Flood warning |
| 29 Jan 2022 | Flood warning |
| 6 Nov 2021 | Flood warning |
| 20 Oct 2021 | Flood warning |
| 9 Feb 2020 | Flood warning |
| 7 Jan 2019 | 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.