Does BH31 flood?

Yes — parts of the BH31 district carry real flood risk: 1 of its 5 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BH31 postcode district covers Verwood, Cranborne & Alderholt, close to Ringwood, Mockbeggar, Ferndown, and surrounding villages in parts of Dorset and Hampshire.

5 postcodes in the BH31 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 high, 2 medium, 2 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 BH31 postcodes are at risk?

BH31 6TN up to High BH31 7BA up to Medium BH31 7BE up to Medium BH31 6TW up to Low BH31 7LD up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near BH31

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

Ringwood Old Cottage on the Bickerly Mill Stream — 5.6 km away, highest on record 1.55m
Moyles Court on the Docken's Water — 6.4 km away, highest on record 1.39m
Ferndown Tricketts Cross on the Uddens Water — 6.8 km away, highest on record 2.50m
Horton Inn on the Groundwater Level — 7.8 km away, highest on record 12.56m

118 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (55 at warning level or above), most recently 5 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

This represents flooding in the area in 2014 (2014) — about 1.9 km from the centre
Flood Extents_Winter 2013 to 2014 (2014) — about 17.4 km from the centre
This represents flooding in the area in 2013 (2013) — about 0.3 km from the centre
Verwood_Winter 2013 to 2014 (2013) — about 1.2 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

BH25 BH24 BH23 BH22 BH21 BH20 BH19 BH17

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.