Environment Agency123FWF196Yorkshire
Wash Dike at Pontefract: flood history since 2015
The Environment Agency has issued 12 flood warnings for Wash Dike at Pontefract since 31 Mar 2015, most often in September; the busiest year was 2015 (3).
Flood warnings on record
The flood area
- Flood area
- Wash Dike at Pontefract
- Code
- 123FWF196
- Environment Agency area
- Yorkshire
- County
- Wakefield
- River or sea
- Wash Dike
- First in the history
- 31 Mar 2015
- Latest in the history file
- 5 Dec 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 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 3 | 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 2024 | Flood warning |
| 8 Jul 2023 | Flood warning |
| 30 Sep 2021 | Flood warning |
| 27 Sep 2021 | Flood warning |
| 9 Feb 2020 | Flood warning |
| 24 Sep 2019 | Flood warning |
| 20 Sep 2018 | Flood warning |
| 22 Jul 2017 | Flood warning |
| 25 Aug 2016 | Flood warning |
| 22 Aug 2015 | Flood warning |
| 4 Jul 2015 | Flood warning |
| 31 Mar 2015 | 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.