Does B9 flood?

Yes — parts of the B9 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 22 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The B9 postcode district covers Bordesley & Highgate, close to Edgbaston, Brookvale Road, Selly Park, and surrounding villages in parts of West Midlands and Worcestershire.

22 postcodes in the B9 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 14 medium, 4 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 B9 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near B9

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

Calthorpe Park on the River Rea — 2.2 km away, highest on record 2.50m
Brookvale Road on the River Tame — 4.3 km away, highest on record 3.65m
Selly Park on the River Rea — 5.2 km away, highest on record 1.82m
Perry Park on the River Tame — 5.7 km away, highest on record 3.39m

538 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (121 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

B8 B11 B7 B12 B6 B13 B5 B14

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.