Does B8 flood?

Yes — parts of the B8 district carry real flood risk: 1 of its 19 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The B8 postcode district covers Alum Rock, Ward End, Nechells, Glebe Farm & Tile Cross, close to Brookvale Road, Edgbaston, Perry Barr, and surrounding villages in parts of West Midlands and Warwickshire.

19 postcodes in the B8 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 high, 7 medium, 10 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 B8 postcodes are at risk?

B8 1BH up to High B8 1AE up to Medium B8 1AP up to Medium B8 1AU up to Medium B8 1BG up to Medium B8 1BT up to Medium B8 1JW up to Medium B8 1QF up to Medium B8 1BL up to Low B8 1DX up to Low B8 1JE up to Low B8 1QH up to Low B8 1QJ up to Low B8 1QS up to Low B8 1QX up to Low B8 2PJ up to Low B8 2SG up to Low B8 2SL up to Low B8 2SH up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near B8

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

Brookvale Road on the River Tame — 3.1 km away, highest on record 3.65m
Calthorpe Park on the River Rea — 4.7 km away, highest on record 2.50m
Perry Park on the River Tame — 5.2 km away, highest on record 3.39m
Sandwell Woodend on the River Tame — 7.5 km away, highest on record 3.11m

556 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (139 at warning level or above), most recently 31 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 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

B7 B9 B6 B11 B5 B12 B4 B13

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.