Environment Agency gauges · Cranbrook, EX5

Cranbrook Flood Watch

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Never drive into floodwater. This is a community estimate built from river gauges and local reports. It is not an official flood warning. Check the Environment Agency's flood warnings, and if a road is flooded, find another route.

Report a road

Reports appear once they've been checked

Reports of roads that are clear in heavy rain are just as useful as flooded ones. They tell us the level a road can cope with.

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How likely each road is to flood

Fitted to local reports · updates as reports are added
Remote <5%Highly unlikely 5–20%Unlikely 20–35%Realistic possibility 35–55%Likely 55–78%Highly likely 78–93%Almost certain >93%

The measure is the highest gauge level in the 12 hours before a given moment, because roads stay under water for several hours after the stream peaks. For each road the model estimates the level at which it becomes impassable, allowing ±0.15 m of scatter from rain falling in different places, debris in culverts and timing. Every "flooded" report pulls that level down; every "passable" or "clear" report pushes it up. Reports from the public count for half as much as the site owner's own checked observations. Roads with no "clear" or "passable" reports have no lower bound, so their low-level chances are cautious guesses. The probability words follow the UK government's probability yardstick.

Reports

Each one is checked against the gauges at that time

The bold figure is the highest level in the 12 hours before the report, at the road's own gauge. The other gauge columns show the same measure for comparison. Figures marked * are estimates; hover over them for details.

Past high-water days

The highest daily peaks on record from the EA hydrology archive. If you have flood photos from any of these days, please report them.

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Gauges and rain