Does BA8 flood?

Yes — parts of the BA8 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 4 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BA8 postcode district covers Blackmoor Vale, close to Wincanton, Gillingham, Sherborne, and surrounding villages in parts of Dorset and Somerset.

4 postcodes in the BA8 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high, 1 medium, 1 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 BA8 postcodes are at risk?

BA8 0AW up to High BA8 0EJ up to High BA8 0TE up to Medium BA8 0ER up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near BA8

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

WINCANTON A303 — 4.1 km away
Wincanton on the River Cale — 4.1 km away, highest on record 2.94m
Gillingham Le Neubourg Way on the River Stour — 9.6 km away, highest on record 2.34m
Sherborne Lake on the River Yeo — 9.7 km away, highest on record 0.39m

190 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (11 at warning level or above), most recently 19 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

Flood Extents_Winter 2013 to 2014 (2014) — about 10.3 km from the centre
EA112_Surface Water_Horsington_1990 (1990) — about 1 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

BA7 BA9 BA10 BA6 BA11 BA5 BA12 BA4

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.