Does BN16 flood?

Yes — parts of the BN16 district carry real flood risk: 43 of its 59 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BN16 postcode district covers Angmering & Findon, Rustington West, East Preston, Rustington East, close to Ferring, Littlehampton, Houghton, and surrounding villages in West Sussex.

59 postcodes in the BN16 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 43 high, 3 medium, 12 low, 1 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 BN16 postcodes are at risk?

BN16 1NA up to High BN16 1NY up to High BN16 1PD up to High BN16 1PN up to High BN16 1SF up to High BN16 2BH up to High BN16 2BN up to High BN16 2DL up to High BN16 2DR up to High BN16 2GW up to High BN16 2JA up to High BN16 2JF up to High BN16 2LT up to High BN16 2LX up to High BN16 2LY up to High BN16 2LZ up to High BN16 2NA up to High BN16 2NB up to High BN16 2ND up to High BN16 2NG up to High BN16 2NT up to High BN16 2TF up to High BN16 2TL up to High BN16 2UG up to High BN16 2UQ up to High BN16 3FN up to High BN16 4BH up to High BN16 4BJ up to High BN16 4BP up to High BN16 4DU up to High BN16 4EA up to High BN16 4ED up to High BN16 4EE up to High BN16 4EF up to High BN16 4EG up to High BN16 4EH up to High BN16 4EJ up to High BN16 4EL up to High BN16 4EQ up to High BN16 4EU up to High BN16 4HL up to High BN16 4JP up to High BN16 4NB up to High BN16 2DP up to Medium BN16 2TY up to Medium BN16 4BG up to Medium BN16 1SH up to Low BN16 1SJ up to Low BN16 2GY up to Low BN16 2JN up to Low BN16 2LF up to Low BN16 2QB up to Low BN16 2UD up to Low BN16 2UE up to Low BN16 2UF up to Low BN16 3AA up to Low BN16 4AE up to Low BN16 4BL up to Low BN16 3JL up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near BN16

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

342 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (18 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

BN15 BN17 BN14 BN18 BN13 BN12 BN20 BN11

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.