Environment Agency064WAC305Kent S London and E Sussex
Coast from Sandgate to Dungeness: flood history since 2012
The Environment Agency has issued 34 flood alerts for Coast from Sandgate to Dungeness since 17 Oct 2012, most often in January; the busiest year was 2014 (6).
Flood alerts only
The flood area
- Flood area
- Coast from Sandgate to Dungeness
- Code
- 064WAC305
- Environment Agency area
- Kent S London and E Sussex
- County
- East Sussex, Kent
- River or sea
- English Channel
- First in the history
- 17 Oct 2012
- Latest in the history file
- 22 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 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 2012 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 |
|---|---|
| 22 Oct 2025 | Flood alert |
| 30 Mar 2025 | Flood alert |
| 17 Oct 2024 | Flood alert |
| 8 Apr 2024 | Flood alert |
| 28 Oct 2023 | Flood alert |
| 1 Sep 2023 | Flood alert |
| 17 Feb 2022 | Flood alert |
| 10 Mar 2020 | Flood alert |
| 9 Feb 2020 | Flood alert |
| 14 Jan 2020 | Flood alert |
| 29 Sep 2019 | Flood alert |
| 28 Sep 2019 | 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.