Does BS16 flood?

Yes — parts of the BS16 district carry real flood risk: 16 of its 62 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BS16 postcode district covers Emersons Green, Eastville, Frome Vale, Winterbourne, close to Hambrook, Frampton Cotterell, Bristol, and surrounding villages in parts of City of Bristol and South Gloucestershire.

62 postcodes in the BS16 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 16 high, 16 medium, 30 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 BS16 postcodes are at risk?

BS16 1BN up to High BS16 1BQ up to High BS16 1BW up to High BS16 1DH up to High BS16 1LR up to High BS16 1RF up to High BS16 1SF up to High BS16 1SG up to High BS16 1ST up to High BS16 2SY up to High BS16 6SE up to High BS16 7FG up to High BS16 7GW up to High BS16 7NG up to High BS16 9BQ up to High BS16 9SG up to High BS16 1DJ up to Medium BS16 1DL up to Medium BS16 1LP up to Medium BS16 1RQ up to Medium BS16 2DL up to Medium BS16 2DW up to Medium BS16 2DY up to Medium BS16 2ED up to Medium BS16 2EF up to Medium BS16 6TB up to Medium BS16 6UG up to Medium BS16 6UH up to Medium BS16 6UT up to Medium BS16 6UW up to Medium BS16 9BH up to Medium BS16 9SH up to Medium BS16 1AP up to Low BS16 1BH up to Low BS16 1BL up to Low BS16 1LN up to Low BS16 1SD up to Low BS16 1SW up to Low BS16 2DN up to Low BS16 2EA up to Low BS16 2EE up to Low BS16 2EJ up to Low BS16 2EQ up to Low BS16 2FX up to Low BS16 5HB up to Low BS16 6PX up to Low BS16 6UP up to Low BS16 6UR up to Low BS16 6US up to Low BS16 6UX up to Low BS16 6XD up to Low BS16 7FE up to Low BS16 7FL up to Low BS16 7GR up to Low BS16 7GT up to Low BS16 7GU up to Low BS16 7JS up to Low BS16 7JW up to Low BS16 7NF up to Low BS16 7NH up to Low BS16 7NJ up to Low BS16 7PX up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near BS16

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

479 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (23 at warning level or above), most recently 30 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

BS15 BS14 BS13 BS20 BS11 BS21 BS10 BS22

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.