Does BN44 flood?

Yes — parts of the BN44 district carry real flood risk: 10 of its 49 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BN44 postcode district covers Bramber, Upper Beeding & Woodmancote, Steyning & Ashurst, West Chiltington, Thakeham & Ashington, close to Upper Beeding, Shoreham Beach, Wineham, and surrounding villages in West Sussex.

49 postcodes in the BN44 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 10 high, 17 medium, 22 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 BN44 postcodes are at risk?

BN44 3AA up to High BN44 3AQ up to High BN44 3LN up to High BN44 3RL up to High BN44 3TF up to High BN44 3TN up to High BN44 3UW up to High BN44 3WB up to High BN44 3WE up to High BN44 3WF up to High BN44 3HU up to Medium BN44 3HW up to Medium BN44 3HZ up to Medium BN44 3JA up to Medium BN44 3JB up to Medium BN44 3JD up to Medium BN44 3JH up to Medium BN44 3RD up to Medium BN44 3TD up to Medium BN44 3TJ up to Medium BN44 3TU up to Medium BN44 3WH up to Medium BN44 3WN up to Medium BN44 3WS up to Medium BN44 3WU up to Medium BN44 3WW up to Medium BN44 3YR up to Medium BN44 3AN up to Low BN44 3BY up to Low BN44 3DH up to Low BN44 3HF up to Low BN44 3HP up to Low BN44 3HR up to Low BN44 3HT up to Low BN44 3HY up to Low BN44 3JW up to Low BN44 3JX up to Low BN44 3RE up to Low BN44 3RJ up to Low BN44 3RR up to Low BN44 3RZ up to Low BN44 3SF up to Low BN44 3SN up to Low BN44 3SP up to Low BN44 3SQ up to Low BN44 3SR up to Low BN44 3SS up to Low BN44 3WP up to Low BN44 3YG up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near BN44

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

103 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (26 at warning level or above), most recently 29 September 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

BN43 BN42 BN41 BN27 BN26 BN25 BN24 BN23

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.