Environment Agency054WACDV2B1East Anglia
The Norfolk coast from Bacton to Ostend, including Walcott: flood history since 2015
The Environment Agency has issued 37 flood alerts for The Norfolk coast from Bacton to Ostend, including Walcott since 10 Jan 2015, most often in January; the busiest year was 2022 (8).
Flood alerts only
The flood area
- Flood area
- The Norfolk coast from Bacton to Ostend, including Walcott
- Code
- 054WACDV2B1
- Environment Agency area
- East Anglia
- County
- Norfolk
- River or sea
- North Sea
- First in the history
- 10 Jan 2015
- Latest in the history file
- 19 Dec 2024
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2 | 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 2015 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 |
|---|---|
| 19 Dec 2024 | Flood alert |
| 16 Nov 2024 | Flood alert |
| 2 Aug 2023 | Flood alert |
| 24 Feb 2023 | Flood alert |
| 12 Sep 2022 | Flood alert |
| 21 Feb 2022 | Flood alert |
| 6 Feb 2022 | Flood alert |
| 4 Feb 2022 | Flood alert |
| 1 Feb 2022 | Flood alert |
| 31 Jan 2022 | Flood alert |
| 29 Jan 2022 | Flood alert |
| 3 Jan 2022 | 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.