Environment Agency13 Oct 2026
Flood alert: The Suffolk and Essex coast from Felixstowe to Clacton including Orwell and Stour estuaries
The Environment Agency raised a flood alert for The Suffolk and Essex coast from Felixstowe to Clacton including Orwell and Stour estuaries (Essex, Suffolk). The Environment Agency has issued 185 flood alerts, 0 flood warnings and 0 severe flood warnings for this area since 10 Feb 2009 (the area's history).
Flood alert
The notice
- Issued by
- Environment Agency
- Area
- The Suffolk and Essex coast from Felixstowe to Clacton including Orwell and Stour estuaries
- Level
- Flood alert
- Issued
- 15:44, 13 Oct 2026
- County
- Essex, Suffolk
- River or sea
- North Sea, River Orwell, River Deben
- Flood area code
- 054WACDV4B
- Official source
- Environment Agency: the notice at its source
The Suffolk and Essex coast from Felixstowe to Clacton including Orwell and Stour 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. The flood gates at Felixstowe seafront will be closed. The waterfront at Pin Mill, and The Strand at Wherstead under the Orwell Bridge may be flooded. Water may be on the quay at Mistley. The detailed forecast is for a peak level at Harwich of 2.7 mAODN at 2:30am, on Wednesday 14th October, which is 0.71m above tide tables, Wind Force 4, Westerly. No further high tides are expected over the coming 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 Suffolk and Essex coast from Felixstowe to Clacton including Orwell and Stour estuaries: every alert and warning since 2009185 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