Tutbury Crossing Signal Box · Photo: Dave Bevis · CC BY-SA 2.014% of Hatton’s homes are at high or medium risk from rivers or the sea, more than in 97% of UK towns
On the Environment Agency’s maps, which allow for flood defences, “high or medium” means at least a 1 in 100 chance of flooding from rivers or the sea in any year. Hatton grades D− for hazard risk.
What stands out about Hatton’s hazards
From the Environment Agency’s maps and records and the BGS radon atlas, below.
What Hatton faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Rivers and the sea
Surface water
Past floods
The River Dove
Flood warnings
Radon
Hatton grades D− for hazard risk
Flood risk from rivers and the sea, against all UK towns.
The share of homes at high or medium risk from rivers and the sea, ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more: fewer homes at risk is better. Towns with none at high or medium risk are ordered by their share at low risk, so they don’t all share one score. Surface water and radon aren’t graded: they are described below.
Where the water goes in Hatton
Turn layers on and off. Blue is the risk from rivers and the sea; pink is where heavy rain collects. Both allow for flood defences.
The river and sea risk follows the Egginton Brook, the Foston Brook and the Hilton Brook. Surface-water risk is patchier: dips, underpasses and small streams.
14% of Hatton’s homes are at high or medium risk from rivers or the sea
The Environment Agency’s national map, allowing for defences. A further 72% are at low risk.
Share of each UK town’s homes at high or medium risk from rivers and the sea. 35% of UK towns have none; Hatton has more than 97% of towns.
| # | Town | People | High or med. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tangmere West Sussex | 4,000 | 0% | |
| 2 | Shirland and Stonebroom Derbyshire | 3,988 | 0% | |
| 3 | Bowerhill Wiltshire | 3,976 | 0% | |
| … | ||||
| 810 | Newhey Greater Manchester | 2,711 | 13% | |
| 811 | Crumbles East Sussex | 3,056 | 14% | |
| 812 | Hatton Derbyshire | 2,560 | 14% | |
| 813 | Upton upon Severn Worcestershire | 2,403 | 14% | |
| 814 | Barlby North Yorkshire | 3,499 | 14% | |
| … | ||||
| 846 | Chapel St Leonards Lincolnshire | 3,435 | 66% | |
| 847 | Gilberdyke East Riding of Yorkshire | 3,028 | 70% | |
UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000 people.
The Environment Agency’s Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (NaFRA2, June 2026) counts each postcode’s homes by band; the shares weight those postcodes by Census 2021 households. The EA counts include homes built since 2021.
Rivers and the sea, more than heavy rain, are Hatton’s flood risk
Surface water is rain that falls faster than drains and the ground can take it. It is mapped separately from rivers and the sea, and it is not in the Hazard risk Grade.
About 0.2% of homes are at high risk of surface-water flooding (a 1 in 30 chance or more each year) and 1.7% at medium risk: roughly 20 households. A further 9.2% face a low risk from surface water. That is more than 22% of UK towns.
Our estimate: every address in the town (ONS NSUL) read on the Environment Agency’s Risk of Flooding from Surface Water map (NaFRA2, 2025), each postcode’s share weighted by its Census 2021 households. Neither agency publishes a count of homes for surface water, so treat it as a guide; one street can differ from the next.
Hatton has flooded in 1 recorded year since 1957
Every flood the Environment Agency has mapped inside Hatton’s built-up area, newest first. The record is fullest for big river floods; small and surface-water floods are often missing.
- 1957August 1957: River flooding recorded79 hectares inside today’s built-up area · Upper Trent
Floodwater covered 79 hectares of what is now Hatton in 1957, the largest flood the record holds here (August).
1,192 of Hatton’s households today live inside the outline of a recorded flood.
The River Dove at Hatton: highest 3.77 m, in November 2000
The highest level each winter (October to September) at the Environment Agency’s Hatton gauge, since 2000. The river normally runs between 0.39 m and 2.48 m here.
- 6 November 20003.79 m
- 21 October 20233.67 m
- 27 October 20193.61 m
- 21 January 20213.52 m
- 16 February 20203.48 m
- 25 November 20123.35 m
The River Dove has topped its normal range on 118 days since 2000, most in the winters of 2023–24 and 2019–20. By its highest day, the winter of 2025–26 was the 15th-highest of the 26.
Environment Agency Hydrology API, Hatton (station 4898), daily maximum level; the record and normal range from the EA’s stage scale. Live river levels are on GOV.UK’s Check for flooding.
No flood warning or alert is in force for Hatton · 0 warnings in 20 years
The Environment Agency has 1 flood warning area and 2 alert areas reaching into the town; warnings since the service began in 2006.
None of Hatton’s 1 flood warning area has had a flood warning since the service began in 2006.
Show the 3 warning and alert areas
| Area | Kind | Since 2006 | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| River Dove at Hatton | Warning area | 0 | None |
| Lower Dove | Alert area | 133 | None |
| Lower Dove Brooks and Egginton Brook in Derbyshire | Alert area | 97 | None |
Environment Agency Historic Flood Warnings (first issues only, not updates; “flood watch” counted as an alert before 2011) and the real-time flood-monitoring API. Sign up for free warnings on GOV.UK or call Floodline, 0345 988 1188.
Hatton is in the lowest radon band
Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. The atlas gives the chance that a home in each 1 km square is above the UK action level (200 Bq/m³).
Every 1 km square over Hatton is in the lowest band: fewer than 1 in 100 homes are expected to be above the action level.
BGS/UKHSA Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, version 3. Check an address at UKradon.org.
Flood risk in the places around Hatton
Share of homes at high or medium and at low risk from rivers and the sea. Tap a town for its page.
| Town | People | High or medium | Low | Hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hatton | 2,560 | 14% | 72% | D− |
| Tutbury | 3,674 | 0% | 0.5% | B+ |
| Hilton | 8,269 | 0.3% | 7.4% | B− |
| Rolleston on Dove | 2,902 | 3% | 2.5% | C− |
| Stretton | 4,646 | 0% | 0% | A |
| Etwall | 3,080 | 0% | 1% | B+ |
| Burton upon Trent | 76,264 | 0.2% | 2% | B− |
| Willington | 2,717 | 2.2% | 3.7% | C− |
Hatton has more homes at high or medium risk than any neighbour in the table. Tutbury, Stretton and Etwall have none.
Get ready for what Hatton faces
Free warnings, what to do in a cloudburst, and what to check before you move.
- Sign up free for Environment Agency flood warnings by text, call or email.
- Floodline: 0345 988 1188, 24 hours.
- Hatton’s warning areas include River Dove at Hatton.
- Surface water rises in minutes, often with no warning issued: stay out of underpasses and dips.
- Keep the gullies and drains outside your home clear of leaves.
- Report a blocked road drain to the council.
- Never walk or drive through floodwater: 30 cm of moving water can float a car.
- Move valuables, papers and medicines upstairs.
- Turn off gas, electricity and water if you’re told to.
- Check the address on GOV.UK’s long-term flood risk service: it gives rivers and sea and surface water separately.
- Ask whether the home has flooded or had a flood insurance claim; the TA6 property form asks the seller.
- Homes built before 2009 can get flood cover through Flood Re, the government-backed scheme; newer homes can’t.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Defences are counted. Both agencies’ maps allow for flood defences and the chance they are overtopped or fail, so a town behind a defence scheme can show few homes at high risk and many at low risk.
- Surface water is our estimate. Neither agency publishes a count of homes at risk from surface water, so we read each address on the map. A flat on a hill and a basement in a dip can share a postcode.
- Past floods are what was recorded. The flood outlines come from surveys, aerial photographs and reports; many small floods, and most surface-water floods, were never mapped.
- One town, many streets. Risk is street by street. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s long-term flood risk service before you buy or rent.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Hatton
Does Hatton flood?
The last flood the Environment Agency recorded inside the town was in August 1957. 14% of homes are at high or medium risk from rivers and the sea on the Environment Agency’s maps, which allow for flood defences. About 1.9% of homes are at high or medium risk from surface water, when heavy rain overwhelms the drains. Hatton grades D− for hazard risk against UK towns.
Which parts of Hatton are at risk of flooding?
From rivers and the sea, the places the Environment Agency warns directly: River Dove at Hatton. Surface water can collect in low spots anywhere in the town. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s long-term flood risk service.
When did Hatton last flood?
The recorded flood outlines inside the town run from 1957 to 1957 (1 years); the largest was in 1957.
Is Hatton at risk of surface water flooding?
About 0.2% of homes are at high risk and 1.7% at medium risk from surface water, against 14% at high or medium risk from rivers and the sea. Surface water floods come with little warning, and the agencies don’t issue warnings for them.
Is radon a problem in Hatton?
Not by the atlas: every 1 km square over Hatton is in the lowest band, where fewer than 1 in 100 homes are expected to be above the action level.
Are there flood warnings in Hatton now?
No flood warning or alert was in force near Hatton at 4 November 2026, 07:53. Live warnings are on GOV.UK’s Check for flooding service and Floodline, 0345 988 1188.
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Sources: Environment Agency Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea, postcodes in areas at risk (June 2026); Natural Resources Wales Flood Risk Assessment Wales (May 2026); ONS Census 2021 households by postcode · Environment Agency Risk of Flooding from Surface Water (NaFRA2, 2025) and Natural Resources Wales Flood Risk Assessment Wales surface water and small watercourses, read at every address (ONS National Statistics UPRN Lookup, September 2026) and weighted by Census 2021 households by postcode · Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines and Natural Resources Wales historic flood map, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Environment Agency Hydrology API (daily maximum river level) and flood-monitoring stage scales · Environment Agency real-time flood-monitoring API · Environment Agency Historic Flood Warnings (January 2006 to June 2026) and flood warning and alert areas · BGS/UKHSA Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, version 3, by 1 km square · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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