Does BH11 flood?

Yes — parts of the BH11 district carry real flood risk: 9 of its 14 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BH11 postcode district covers Kinson, Bearwood & Merley, close to Throop, Oakley, Ferndown, and surrounding villages in parts of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset.

14 postcodes in the BH11 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 9 high, 5 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 BH11 postcodes are at risk?

BH11 9AD up to High BH11 9AP up to High BH11 9BN up to High BH11 9BP up to High BH11 9BS up to High BH11 9BW up to High BH11 9DG up to High BH11 9JZ up to High BH11 9LQ up to High BH11 9AA up to Low BH11 9AB up to Low BH11 9AE up to Low BH11 9AW up to Low BH11 9LG up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near BH11

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

Throop on the River Stour — 4.7 km away, highest on record 1.91m
Wimborne on the River Stour — 4.8 km away, highest on record 2.00m
Ferndown Tricketts Cross on the Uddens Water — 5.5 km away, highest on record 2.50m
Hurn Court on the Moors River — 6 km away, highest on record 1.77m

360 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (200 at warning level or above), most recently 17 March 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 14 km from the centre
Kinson, Bournemouth_Winter 2013 to 2014 (2013) — about 0.6 km from the centre
Stour Flood 97 (2009) — about 1.4 km from the centre
Stour Flood 90 (2009) — about 2.8 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

BH10 BH12 BH13 BH14 BH8 BH15 BH7 BH16

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.