Does BH1 flood?

Yes — parts of the BH1 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 2 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BH1 postcode district sits close to Bournemouth, Pokesdown, Throop and surrounding villages in parts of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset.

2 postcodes in the BH1 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high. 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 BH1 postcodes are at risk?

BH1 2AQ up to High BH1 2EZ up to High

Rivers and flooding history near BH1

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

Iford Bridge on the River Stour — 5.6 km away, highest on record 3.81m
Throop on the River Stour — 5.6 km away, highest on record 1.91m
Hurn Court on the Moors River — 7.1 km away, highest on record 1.77m
Christchurch on the Christchurch Coast — 7.4 km away, highest on record 1.99m

617 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (234 at warning level or above), most recently 16 July 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 18.6 km from the centre
Jan 1959 Avon & Frome (1959) — about 5.8 km from the centre

Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

BH2 BH4 BH6 BH7 BH8 BH10 BH11 BH12

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.