Environment Agency122FWCDWT36Former flood area

North Sea at Sandsend: flood history since 2006

The Environment Agency has issued 25 flood warnings for North Sea at Sandsend since 1 Mar 2006, most often in March; the busiest year was 2010 (10).

Flood warnings on record

The flood area

Flood area: North Sea at Sandsend
Code: 122FWCDWT36
Environment Agency area: none today (the history file lists it under NE - Yorkshire North and East)
First in the history: 1 Mar 2006
Latest in the history file: 9 Oct 2010
Current status: no longer an Environment Agency flood area (not in its register of 1 Oct 2026)

Source: Environment Agency, Historic Flood Warnings (England); Environment Agency flood-monitoring API. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

2010 was the busiest year for North Sea at Sandsend

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
2010	0	10	0
2009	0	2	0
2008	0	3	0
2007	0	6	0
2006	0	4	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.

Most often in March

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.

Source: Environment Agency, Historic Flood Warnings (England); Environment Agency flood-monitoring API. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.