Environment Agency13 Oct 2026
Flood alert: The tidal Deben estuary
The Environment Agency raised a flood alert for The tidal Deben estuary (Suffolk). The Environment Agency has issued 185 flood alerts, 0 flood warnings and 0 severe flood warnings for this area since 27 Feb 2006 (the area's history).
Flood alert
The notice
- Issued by
- Environment Agency
- Area
- The tidal Deben estuary
- Level
- Flood alert
- Issued
- 15:41, 13 Oct 2026
- County
- Suffolk
- River or sea
- River Deben, North Sea
- Flood area code
- 054WACDV4A
- Official source
- Environment Agency: the notice at its source
The tidal Deben estuary: every alert and warning since 2006England'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 around the boat yard in Felixstowe Ferry hamlet at the end of Ferry Road, and along riverside areas in Woodbridge and Waldringfield, as well as in surrounding marshland. The detailed forecast is for a peak level at Harwich of 2.7mAODN 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 tidal Deben estuary: every alert and warning since 2006185 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