Does BH20 flood?

Yes — parts of the BH20 district carry real flood risk: 40 of its 66 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BH20 postcode district covers Wareham, West Purbeck, South East Purbeck, Lytchett Matravers & Upton, close to East Stoke, Winfrith, Briantspuddle, and surrounding villages in parts of Dorset and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

66 postcodes in the BH20 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 40 high, 7 medium, 17 low, 2 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 BH20 postcodes are at risk?

BH20 4AR up to High BH20 4AS up to High BH20 4EA up to High BH20 4JD up to High BH20 4LP up to High BH20 4LW up to High BH20 4ND up to High BH20 4PB up to High BH20 4QW up to High BH20 5AA up to High BH20 5AD up to High BH20 5BE up to High BH20 5BJ up to High BH20 5ED up to High BH20 5ES up to High BH20 5JN up to High BH20 5PE up to High BH20 5PF up to High BH20 6AF up to High BH20 6AP up to High BH20 6AS up to High BH20 6AW up to High BH20 6BB up to High BH20 6BL up to High BH20 6BN up to High BH20 6BP up to High BH20 6DB up to High BH20 6DE up to High BH20 6EY up to High BH20 6HE up to High BH20 6HL up to High BH20 7DJ up to High BH20 7ES up to High BH20 7JF up to High BH20 7LH up to High BH20 7LN up to High BH20 7NH up to High BH20 7NT up to High BH20 7NZ up to High BH20 7PD up to High BH20 4AP up to Medium BH20 4EU up to Medium BH20 5JR up to Medium BH20 6BT up to Medium BH20 6HQ up to Medium BH20 7PA up to Medium BH20 7PQ up to Medium BH20 4AT up to Low BH20 4BW up to Low BH20 4SJ up to Low BH20 5AB up to Low BH20 5BG up to Low BH20 5EL up to Low BH20 5JG up to Low BH20 5JH up to Low BH20 5JL up to Low BH20 6DD up to Low BH20 6FA up to Low BH20 6NR up to Low BH20 6PA up to Low BH20 7BH up to Low BH20 7HU up to Low BH20 7LS up to Low BH20 7NJ up to Low BH20 5RL up to Very low BH20 5RQ up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near BH20

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

749 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (115 at warning level or above), most recently 15 March 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.