Does B18 flood?

Yes — parts of the B18 district carry real flood risk: 5 of its 20 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The B18 postcode district covers Soho & Jewellery Quarter, Soho and Victoria, close to Perry Barr, Brookvale Road, Sandwell Valley, and surrounding villages in parts of West Midlands and Worcestershire.

20 postcodes in the B18 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 5 high, 6 medium, 9 low. A postcode not listed here has no properties in any recorded risk band (which is good news, but never proof it cannot flood).

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Which B18 postcodes are at risk?

B18 5JR up to High B18 5JU up to High B18 5JY up to High B18 5LU up to High B18 5PP up to High B18 4QP up to Medium B18 5JZ up to Medium B18 5LY up to Medium B18 5NA up to Medium B18 5NL up to Medium B18 5TR up to Medium B18 4LX up to Low B18 5AU up to Low B18 5BA up to Low B18 5BB up to Low B18 5BD up to Low B18 5JJ up to Low B18 5JT up to Low B18 5JX up to Low B18 5PL up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near B18

The rivers that matter here, each monitored live on FloodRadar:

Perry Park on the River Tame — 3.2 km away, highest on record 3.39m
Brookvale Road on the River Tame — 3.6 km away, highest on record 3.65m
Sandwell Woodend on the River Tame — 4.3 km away, highest on record 3.11m
Calthorpe Park on the River Rea — 4.5 km away, highest on record 2.50m

413 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (154 at warning level or above), most recently 30 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

July 2007 Brook Vale Road (2007) — about 3.6 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

B17 B19 B20 B15 B21 B14 B13 B23

Band = the worst likelihood band of any property in that postcode (EA Risk of Flooding from Rivers & Sea, defence-adjusted, area-level). Check any postcode in detail — or get the full £19 property report — at the property flood-risk report. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH). © Crown Copyright and Database Rights 2025 OS AC0000807064. This product is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, the copyright in which is owned by Royal Mail Group Limited and/or Royal Mail Group plc. All rights reserved. Licence number AC0000807064.