Does BA9 flood?

Yes — parts of the BA9 district carry real flood risk: 10 of its 31 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BA9 postcode district covers Castle Cary, Blackmoor Vale, close to Wincanton, Bruton, Milton On Stour, and surrounding villages in parts of Somerset and Dorset.

31 postcodes in the BA9 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 10 high, 8 medium, 13 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 BA9 postcodes are at risk?

BA9 8AB up to High BA9 8BQ up to High BA9 8DG up to High BA9 8HE up to High BA9 8HY up to High BA9 9ED up to High BA9 9EJ up to High BA9 9PP up to High BA9 9RA up to High BA9 9TD up to High BA9 8DN up to Medium BA9 8NF up to Medium BA9 9BA up to Medium BA9 9BN up to Medium BA9 9DP up to Medium BA9 9DT up to Medium BA9 9EB up to Medium BA9 9EF up to Medium BA9 8BG up to Low BA9 9AD up to Low BA9 9AH up to Low BA9 9AN up to Low BA9 9AQ up to Low BA9 9AZ up to Low BA9 9BG up to Low BA9 9BQ up to Low BA9 9JA up to Low BA9 9RP up to Low BA9 9RR up to Low BA9 9RS up to Low BA9 9RT up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near BA9

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

WINCANTON A303 — 1.1 km away
Wincanton on the River Cale — 1.1 km away, highest on record 2.94m
Bruton Dam on the River Brue — 6.5 km away, highest on record 10.70m
Bruton Surgery on the River Brue — 6.5 km away, highest on record 2.69m

67 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (12 at warning level or above), most recently 8 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

BA10 BA8 BA11 BA7 BA12 BA6 BA13 BA5

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.