Environment Agency123WAF983Yorkshire
Wash Dike catchment: flood history since 2015
The Environment Agency has issued 26 flood alerts for Wash Dike catchment since 3 Jul 2015, most often in July; the busiest year was 2015 (6). The history file ends in June 2026; AreaZine's record of the live feed adds 2 since 1 July 2026.
Flood alerts only
The flood area
- Flood area
- Wash Dike catchment
- Code
- 123WAF983
- Environment Agency area
- Yorkshire
- County
- Wakefield
- River or sea
- Wash Dike
- First in the history
- 3 Jul 2015
- Latest in the history file
- 20 Jul 2025
- Latest in AreaZine's record
- Flood alert, 30 Aug 2026
- 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.
The latest: since 1 July 2026, in AreaZine's record of the live feed
| Date | Level |
|---|---|
| 30 Aug 2026 | Flood alert |
| 27 Aug 2026 | Flood alert |
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 6 | 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 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 |
|---|---|
| 20 Jul 2025 | Flood alert |
| 8 Oct 2024 | Flood alert |
| 6 May 2024 | Flood alert |
| 20 Oct 2023 | Flood alert |
| 8 Jul 2023 | Flood alert |
| 31 Oct 2022 | Flood alert |
| 15 Feb 2020 | Flood alert |
| 8 Feb 2020 | Flood alert |
| 25 Oct 2019 | Flood alert |
| 24 Sep 2019 | Flood alert |
| 13 Aug 2018 | Flood alert |
| 26 Jul 2018 | 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.