Environment Agency monitoring directory
Coastal areas from Folkestone to St Mary's Bay
Live Environment Agency feed
Is an official warning active now?
Official area details
- Watercourse or coast
- English Channel
- Directory county
- Kent
- EA operational area
- Kent
- Coverage category
- Designated Flood Warning Area
Use this information safely
- For conditions now: use the live panel and verify on the official flood service.
- For a property: use the official long-term risk checker; this directory is not address-level evidence.
- For river levels: open a nearby monitoring station and check the reading time.
- For immediate danger: follow emergency-service instructions and call 999.
Nearby river-level stations
These are measuring instruments, not reported flood locations. A station reading must be interpreted with its timestamp, station datum and any official threshold context.
Nearby designated monitoring areas
Areas at risk of coastal flooding from Warden Bay to Hamlet of Shellness, including Warden, Bay View and Leysdown on Sea
English Channel · designated warning area
Coast and tidal areas from Sandgate to Lydd, including Hythe, Dymchurch, St Marys Bay, Littlestone, Greatstone, New Romney and communities on the Romney Marsh up to the Royal Military Canal
English Channel · designated alert area
Coastal areas from Littlestone Golf Course to Dungeness
English Channel · designated warning area
Areas at risk of coastal flooding in Sheerness, Minster and Queenborough, including Rushenden, Scrapsgate and West Minster
English Channel · designated warning area
Property and insurance decisions
Inclusion in an EA monitoring area does not by itself establish a property's flood probability, insurance eligibility or premium. Check the address-level official service and ask the insurer or a qualified surveyor about the property.
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