Does B38 flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in B38: none of its 4 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The B38 postcode district covers King's Norton North, close to Selly Park, Longbridge, Major's Green, and surrounding villages in parts of West Midlands and Worcestershire.

4 postcodes in the B38 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 low, 2 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 B38 postcodes are at risk?

B38 8AD up to Low B38 8SX up to Low B38 8AA up to Very low B38 8SY up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near B38

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

Selly Park on the River Rea — 3.3 km away, highest on record 1.82m
Longbridge on the River Rea — 3.8 km away, highest on record 1.65m
Solihull Lodge on the River Cole — 6 km away, highest on record 1.93m
Calthorpe Park on the River Rea — 6.2 km away, highest on record 2.50m

244 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (155 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):

River Rea Flood Event Sept 2008 at Selly Park (2008) — about 3.6 km from the centre
M_LS_Jan_1985 (1985) — about 26.7 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

B37 B36 B40 B35 B34 B42 B33 B43

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.