Environment Agency13 Oct 2026
Flood alert: The Essex coast from St Peters Flat to and including Shoeburyness and the Crouch and Roach estuaries
The Environment Agency raised a flood alert for The Essex coast from St Peters Flat to and including Shoeburyness and the Crouch and Roach estuaries (Essex, Southend-on-Sea). The Environment Agency has issued 146 flood alerts, 0 flood warnings and 0 severe flood warnings for this area since 3 Oct 2009 (the area's history).
Flood alert
The notice
- Issued by
- Environment Agency
- Area
- The Essex coast from St Peters Flat to and including Shoeburyness and the Crouch and Roach estuaries
- Level
- Flood alert
- Issued
- 15:41, 13 Oct 2026
- County
- Essex, Southend-on-Sea
- River or sea
- River Crouch, River Roach, North Sea
- Flood area code
- 051WACDV4D
- Official source
- Environment Agency: the notice at its source
The Essex coast from St Peters Flat to and including Shoeburyness and the Crouch and Roach estuaries: every alert and warning since 2009England's flood areas ranked by alerts and warnings
Source: Environment Agency: the notice at its source. AreaZine rebuilds this page from the agency's record; the agency's page is the one to act on. This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The notice as issued
High tides overnight may lead to flooding. Flooding is possible from 1:30am to 3:30am on Wednesday 14th October. Tide levels will be high at Battlesbridge and Hullbridge riversides. Creeksea Ferry Road onto Wallasea Island may be flooded. The detailed forecast is for a peak level at Clacton of 2.94mAODN at 2:30am on Wednesday 14th October, which is 0.5m above tide tables, Wind Force 4, Westerly. Tides will remain high over the next couple of days. We are closely monitoring the situation . Avoid coastal roads, footpaths and carparks, which may be flooded. This message will be updated by 9:00AM on Wednesday 14 October or as the situation changes.
Source: Environment Agency: the notice at its source. The text is the agency's, unedited. This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The record around this notice
- The Essex coast from St Peters Flat to and including Shoeburyness and the Crouch and Roach estuaries: every alert and warning since 2009146 in all
- England's flood areas ranked by alerts and warnings
- Flood alerts and warnings, October 202645 in the month
- The latest from the Environment Agency
- Every warning and recall in the United Kingdom
- Flood alert, flood warning, severe flood warning