Environment Agency114FWT1T1BA00Devon and Cornwall
South Cornwall coast from Lands End to Lizard Point excluding Mounts Bay: flood history since 2015
The Environment Agency has issued 29 flood warnings for South Cornwall coast from Lands End to Lizard Point excluding Mounts Bay since 27 Oct 2015, most often in October; the busiest year was 2020 (6).
Flood warnings on record
The flood area
- Flood area
- South Cornwall coast from Lands End to Lizard Point excluding Mounts Bay
- Code
- 114FWT1T1BA00
- Environment Agency area
- Devon and Cornwall
- County
- Cornwall
- River or sea
- South Cornwall Coast
- First in the history
- 27 Oct 2015
- Latest in the history file
- 5 Dec 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 | 4 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 2015 | 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 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 |
|---|---|
| 5 Dec 2025 | Flood warning |
| 19 Oct 2024 | Flood warning |
| 7 Apr 2024 | Flood warning |
| 10 Mar 2024 | Flood warning |
| 9 Feb 2024 | Flood warning |
| 27 Oct 2023 | Flood warning |
| 1 Sep 2023 | Flood warning |
| 21 Mar 2023 | Flood warning |
| 17 Feb 2022 | Flood warning |
| 17 Feb 2022 | Flood warning |
| 15 Dec 2020 | Flood warning |
| 14 Nov 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.