Does B24 flood?

Yes — parts of the B24 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 10 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The B24 postcode district covers Pype Hayes, Gravelly Hill, close to Brookvale Road, Water Orton, Perry Barr, and surrounding villages in parts of West Midlands and Warwickshire.

10 postcodes in the B24 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high, 8 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 B24 postcodes are at risk?

B24 8TG up to High B24 8TQ up to High B24 8DD up to Low B24 8DL up to Low B24 8DW up to Low B24 8HZ up to Low B24 9FP up to Low B24 9HL up to Low B24 9QJ up to Low B24 9QR up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near B24

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

Brookvale Road on the River Tame — 3.4 km away, highest on record 3.65m
Perry Park on the River Tame — 5.7 km away, highest on record 3.39m
Calthorpe Park on the River Rea — 6.9 km away, highest on record 2.50m
Bacons End on the River Cole — 7.3 km away, highest on record 1.96m

577 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (160 at warning level or above), most recently 31 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

B23 B25 B26 B21 B27 B20 B28 B19

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.