Does BH15 flood?

Yes — parts of the BH15 district carry real flood risk: 29 of its 114 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BH15 postcode district covers Hamworthy, Oakdale, South East Purbeck, close to Poole, Bournemouth, Oakley, and surrounding villages in parts of Dorset and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

114 postcodes in the BH15 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 29 high, 44 medium, 38 low, 3 very 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 BH15 postcodes are at risk?

BH15 1AE up to High BH15 1EF up to High BH15 1EX up to High BH15 1HA up to High BH15 1HJ up to High BH15 1HT up to High BH15 1HU up to High BH15 1HW up to High BH15 1HX up to High BH15 1JD up to High BH15 1JF up to High BH15 1JJ up to High BH15 1LJ up to High BH15 1LS up to High BH15 1ZB up to High BH15 4AB up to High BH15 4AD up to High BH15 4AF up to High BH15 4AJ up to High BH15 4AN up to High BH15 4AS up to High BH15 4BA up to High BH15 4DH up to High BH15 4DT up to High BH15 4EJ up to High BH15 4EL up to High BH15 4EQ up to High BH15 4NQ up to High BH15 4QP up to High BH15 1AB up to Medium BH15 1AD up to Medium BH15 1BH up to Medium BH15 1BQ up to Medium BH15 1BW up to Medium BH15 1EJ up to Medium BH15 1GZ up to Medium BH15 1HF up to Medium BH15 1HH up to Medium BH15 1HL up to Medium BH15 1HP up to Medium BH15 1HS up to Medium BH15 1JN up to Medium BH15 1JU up to Medium BH15 1JY up to Medium BH15 1LF up to Medium BH15 1QA up to Medium BH15 1QH up to Medium BH15 1QL up to Medium BH15 1QN up to Medium BH15 1QQ up to Medium BH15 1QR up to Medium BH15 1QS up to Medium BH15 1QW up to Medium BH15 1QX up to Medium BH15 1QY up to Medium BH15 1RA up to Medium BH15 1RD up to Medium BH15 1RH up to Medium BH15 1RJ up to Medium BH15 1RQ up to Medium BH15 1RW up to Medium BH15 1RX up to Medium BH15 1RY up to Medium BH15 1SB up to Medium BH15 1SD up to Medium BH15 1TQ up to Medium BH15 1WZ up to Medium BH15 1XY up to Medium BH15 1ZA up to Medium BH15 4AQ up to Medium BH15 4AT up to Medium BH15 4GF up to Medium BH15 4QQ up to Medium BH15 1BP up to Low BH15 1FF up to Low BH15 1HD up to Low BH15 1HZ up to Low BH15 1JG up to Low BH15 1JL up to Low BH15 1JP up to Low BH15 1JQ up to Low BH15 1JT up to Low BH15 1PU up to Low BH15 1QJ up to Low BH15 1QP up to Low BH15 1QT up to Low BH15 1QU up to Low BH15 1RN up to Low BH15 1RP up to Low BH15 1TN up to Low BH15 1UH up to Low BH15 1UT up to Low BH15 1XX up to Low BH15 1YB up to Low BH15 2FQ up to Low BH15 3BN up to Low BH15 3EE up to Low BH15 3EY up to Low BH15 3HD up to Low BH15 3HE up to Low BH15 4AE up to Low BH15 4AP up to Low BH15 4BL up to Low BH15 4DP up to Low BH15 4FN up to Low BH15 4GA up to Low BH15 4LR up to Low BH15 4LW up to Low BH15 4LZ up to Low BH15 4PG up to Low BH15 4QH up to Low BH15 1UX up to Very low BH15 4DF up to Very low BH15 4DJ up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near BH15

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

659 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (197 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):

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

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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.