Does BS27 flood?

Yes — parts of the BS27 district carry real flood risk: 33 of its 59 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BS27 postcode district covers Cheddar, Mendip West, close to Cheddar Gorge, Wookey, Godney, and surrounding villages in parts of Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset.

59 postcodes in the BS27 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 33 high, 10 medium, 16 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 BS27 postcodes are at risk?

BS27 3EB up to High BS27 3ED up to High BS27 3EH up to High BS27 3FS up to High BS27 3GQ up to High BS27 3LZ up to High BS27 3NA up to High BS27 3NB up to High BS27 3ND up to High BS27 3NE up to High BS27 3NF up to High BS27 3NG up to High BS27 3NJ up to High BS27 3NP up to High BS27 3NR up to High BS27 3NZ up to High BS27 3PH up to High BS27 3PL up to High BS27 3PN up to High BS27 3PR up to High BS27 3PX up to High BS27 3QE up to High BS27 3QH up to High BS27 3QL up to High BS27 3QN up to High BS27 3QW up to High BS27 3RF up to High BS27 3RH up to High BS27 3RJ up to High BS27 3RP up to High BS27 3UD up to High BS27 3UJ up to High BS27 3UP up to High BS27 3NH up to Medium BS27 3NL up to Medium BS27 3NN up to Medium BS27 3NS up to Medium BS27 3QA up to Medium BS27 3QJ up to Medium BS27 3RA up to Medium BS27 3RB up to Medium BS27 3RL up to Medium BS27 3XB up to Medium BS27 3GA up to Low BS27 3GB up to Low BS27 3NQ up to Low BS27 3PA up to Low BS27 3PS up to Low BS27 3UF up to Low BS27 3XJ up to Low BS27 3XL up to Low BS27 3XN up to Low BS27 3XP up to Low BS27 3XQ up to Low BS27 3XR up to Low BS27 3XS up to Low BS27 3XT up to Low BS27 3XU up to Low BS27 3XW up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near BS27

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

271 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006, most recently 23 June 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

BS26 BS28 BS25 BS29 BS24 BS30 BS23 BS31

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.