Does BS26 flood?

Yes — parts of the BS26 district carry real flood risk: 9 of its 51 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BS26 postcode district covers Brent, Cheddar, Banwell & Winscombe, close to Cheddar Gorge, Burtle, Congresbury, and surrounding villages in parts of Somerset and North Somerset.

51 postcodes in the BS26 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 9 high, 10 medium, 15 low, 17 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 BS26 postcodes are at risk?

BS26 2BA up to High BS26 2EQ up to High BS26 2FU up to High BS26 2JE up to High BS26 2JL up to High BS26 2LH up to High BS26 2SH up to High BS26 2UU up to High BS26 2XE up to High BS26 2AJ up to Medium BS26 2DX up to Medium BS26 2EH up to Medium BS26 2FE up to Medium BS26 2HJ up to Medium BS26 2QA up to Medium BS26 2RD up to Medium BS26 2RS up to Medium BS26 2TY up to Medium BS26 2UD up to Medium BS26 2JA up to Low BS26 2JB up to Low BS26 2RE up to Low BS26 2RG up to Low BS26 2RH up to Low BS26 2RJ up to Low BS26 2RL up to Low BS26 2RQ up to Low BS26 2SF up to Low BS26 2SL up to Low BS26 2SN up to Low BS26 2SQ up to Low BS26 2US up to Low BS26 2XD up to Low BS26 2XF up to Low BS26 2FP up to Very low BS26 2FT up to Very low BS26 2TB up to Very low BS26 2TD up to Very low BS26 2TG up to Very low BS26 2TH up to Very low BS26 2TL up to Very low BS26 2TP up to Very low BS26 2TQ up to Very low BS26 2TT up to Very low BS26 2TX up to Very low BS26 2TZ up to Very low BS26 2UA up to Very low BS26 2UF up to Very low BS26 2UG up to Very low BS26 2UL up to Very low BS26 2UP up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near BS26

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

420 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (39 at warning level or above), most recently 29 August 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

BS25 BS27 BS24 BS28 BS23 BS29 BS22 BS30

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.