Does BR4 flood?

Yes — parts of the BR4 district carry real flood risk: 13 of its 16 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BR4 postcode district covers West Wickham, Hayes & Coney Hall, close to Bromley, Eden Park, Beckenham, and surrounding villages in parts of England and Kent.

16 postcodes in the BR4 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 13 high, 1 medium, 1 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 BR4 postcodes are at risk?

BR4 0PJ up to High BR4 9AG up to High BR4 9AZ up to High BR4 9BB up to High BR4 9BD up to High BR4 9BE up to High BR4 9BJ up to High BR4 9BN up to High BR4 9BQ up to High BR4 9BS up to High BR4 9BW up to High BR4 9BY up to High BR4 9QH up to High BR4 9PZ up to Medium BR4 9PG up to Low BR4 9BT up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near BR4

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

Upper Elmers End on the St James Stream — 3 km away, highest on record 1.74m
Bromley South on the River Ravensbourne — 3.5 km away, highest on record 0.92m
Beckenham on the The Beck — 3.9 km away, highest on record 1.73m
Bishops Avenue on the River Ravensbourne — 3.9 km away, highest on record 2.55m

111 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (14 at warning level or above), most recently 27 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

September 1968 flooding — about 2.7 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

BR3 BR5 BR2 BR6 BR1 BR7

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.