Does B37 flood?

Yes — parts of the B37 district carry real flood risk: 5 of its 11 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The B37 postcode district covers Bickenhill, Kingshurst and Fordbridge, close to Marston Green, Swans Barn, Coleshill, Coleshill, and surrounding villages in parts of West Midlands and Warwickshire.

11 postcodes in the B37 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 5 high, 1 medium, 4 low, 1 very 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 B37 postcodes are at risk?

B37 5PJ up to High B37 5PP up to High B37 6NT up to High B37 7AL up to High B37 7AN up to High B37 7EA up to Medium B37 5LN up to Low B37 6NS up to Low B37 6NU up to Low B37 7DX up to Low B37 5NU up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near B37

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

Bacons End on the River Cole — 1.5 km away, highest on record 1.96m
Swans Barn on the River Cole — 4.7 km away, highest on record 2.83m
Castle Farm on the River Blythe — 4.7 km away, highest on record 2.34m
Lea Marston on the River Tame — 8.1 km away, highest on record 1.99m

658 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 28 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

B36 B38 B35 B34 B40 B33 B32 B42

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.