Environment Agency122WAF984Yorkshire
Pickering Beck and Costa Beck catchments: flood history since 2021
The Environment Agency has issued 18 flood alerts for Pickering Beck and Costa Beck catchments since 11 Jan 2021, most often in January; the busiest year was 2023 (6).
Flood alerts only
The flood area
- Flood area
- Pickering Beck and Costa Beck catchments
- Code
- 122WAF984
- Environment Agency area
- Yorkshire
- County
- North Yorkshire
- River or sea
- Pickering Beck, Costa Beck
- First in the history
- 11 Jan 2021
- Latest in the history file
- 23 Nov 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 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 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 2021 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 |
|---|---|
| 23 Nov 2025 | Flood alert |
| 14 Nov 2025 | Flood alert |
| 20 Sep 2025 | Flood alert |
| 6 Jan 2025 | Flood alert |
| 7 Dec 2024 | Flood alert |
| 1 Oct 2024 | Flood alert |
| 27 Sep 2024 | Flood alert |
| 28 Apr 2024 | Flood alert |
| 11 Feb 2024 | Flood alert |
| 1 Jan 2024 | Flood alert |
| 7 Dec 2023 | Flood alert |
| 5 Dec 2023 | 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.