Environment Agency054WATBT2East Anglia
The tidal River Yare from Thorpe St Andrew to Breydon Water: flood history since 2006
The Environment Agency has issued 217 flood alerts for The tidal River Yare from Thorpe St Andrew to Breydon Water since 8 Feb 2006, most often in January; the busiest year was 2024 (34). The history file ends in June 2026; AreaZine's record of the live feed adds 2 since 1 July 2026.
Flood alerts only
The flood area
- Flood area
- The tidal River Yare from Thorpe St Andrew to Breydon Water
- Code
- 054WATBT2
- Environment Agency area
- East Anglia
- County
- Norfolk
- River or sea
- River Yare
- First in the history
- 8 Feb 2006
- Latest in the history file
- 11 May 2026
- Latest in AreaZine's record
- Flood alert, 19 Jul 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 |
|---|---|
| 19 Jul 2026 | Flood alert |
| 18 Jul 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 34 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 23 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 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 2006 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 |
|---|---|
| 11 May 2026 | Flood alert |
| 30 Mar 2026 | Flood alert |
| 25 Mar 2026 | Flood alert |
| 16 Feb 2026 | Flood alert |
| 1 Jan 2026 | Flood alert |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Flood alert |
| 8 Dec 2025 | Flood alert |
| 24 Nov 2025 | Flood alert |
| 16 Nov 2025 | Flood alert |
| 23 Oct 2025 | Flood alert |
| 4 Oct 2025 | Flood alert |
| 24 Feb 2025 | 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.