Does BH14 flood?

Yes — parts of the BH14 district carry real flood risk: 8 of its 21 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BH14 postcode district covers Parkstone, Penn Hill, Canford Cliffs, close to Poole, Bournemouth, Oakley, and surrounding villages in parts of Dorset and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

21 postcodes in the BH14 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 8 high, 3 medium, 10 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 BH14 postcodes are at risk?

BH14 8EE up to High BH14 8EH up to High BH14 8EQ up to High BH14 8EW up to High BH14 8HA up to High BH14 8HY up to High BH14 8JE up to High BH14 8JR up to High BH14 8FA up to Medium BH14 8JT up to Medium BH14 8LN up to Medium BH14 7AA up to Low BH14 8BT up to Low BH14 8DB up to Low BH14 8DR up to Low BH14 8DU up to Low BH14 8EJ up to Low BH14 8EN up to Low BH14 8ES up to Low BH14 8LP up to Low BH14 8LW up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near BH14

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

Wimborne on the River Stour — 8.9 km away, highest on record 2.00m
Throop on the River Stour — 9.6 km away, highest on record 1.91m
Iford Bridge on the River Stour — 10.7 km away, highest on record 3.81m
Walford Mill on the River Allen — 10.8 km away, highest on record 1.11m

596 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (140 at warning level or above), most recently 17 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 15.1 km from the centre
Dec 1989 Green Gardens (1989) — about 1.9 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

BH13 BH15 BH12 BH16 BH11 BH17 BH10 BH19

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.