Does BH13 flood?

Yes — parts of the BH13 district carry real flood risk: 9 of its 18 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BH13 postcode district covers Canford Cliffs, South East Purbeck, close to Poole, Bournemouth, Swanage, and surrounding villages in parts of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset.

18 postcodes in the BH13 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 9 high, 4 medium, 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 BH13 postcodes are at risk?

BH13 7AY up to High BH13 7EE up to High BH13 7PJ up to High BH13 7PP up to High BH13 7PS up to High BH13 7PW up to High BH13 7QB up to High BH13 7QL up to High BH13 7QN up to High BH13 7PQ up to Medium BH13 7QQ up to Medium BH13 7RD up to Medium BH13 7RL up to Medium BH13 6LP up to Low BH13 7NW up to Low BH13 7QH up to Low BH13 7QJ up to Low BH13 7RG up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near BH13

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

Swanage Prospect Farm Swan Brook on the Swan Brook — 9 km away, highest on record 1.31m
Swanage King Georges Field St Marys Church on the Swan Brook — 9.3 km away, highest on record 0.55m
Throop on the River Stour — 10.6 km away, highest on record 1.91m
Iford Bridge on the River Stour — 10.9 km away, highest on record 3.81m

620 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (158 at warning level or above), most recently 18 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 17.4 km from the centre
Dec 1989 Green Gardens (1989) — about 3.7 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

BH12 BH14 BH11 BH15 BH10 BH16 BH17 BH8

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.