Environment Agency112FWTPRT01Wessex
Somerset coast at Portishead and Portbury Dock, seafront properties and Portbury Dock areas: flood history since 2012
The Environment Agency has issued 44 flood warnings for Somerset coast at Portishead and Portbury Dock, seafront properties and Portbury Dock areas since 16 Oct 2012, most often in March; the busiest year was 2016 (8).
Flood warnings on record
The flood area
- Flood area
- Somerset coast at Portishead and Portbury Dock, seafront properties and Portbury Dock areas
- Code
- 112FWTPRT01
- Environment Agency area
- Wessex
- County
- City of Bristol, North Somerset
- River or sea
- Bristol Channel
- First in the history
- 16 Oct 2012
- Latest in the history file
- 18 Oct 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 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 2 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 18 Oct 2024 | Flood warning |
| 20 Sep 2024 | Flood warning |
| 8 Apr 2024 | Flood warning |
| 10 Mar 2024 | Flood warning |
| 11 Feb 2024 | Flood warning |
| 29 Oct 2023 | Flood warning |
| 30 Sep 2023 | Flood warning |
| 1 Sep 2023 | Flood warning |
| 22 Mar 2023 | Flood warning |
| 21 Feb 2023 | Flood warning |
| 14 Nov 2020 | Flood warning |
| 21 Aug 2020 | 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.