Does BS28 flood?

Yes — parts of the BS28 district carry real flood risk: 14 of its 19 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BS28 postcode district covers King Alfred, Cheddar, Brent, Mendip West, close to Burtle, Godney, Cheddar Gorge, and surrounding villages in Somerset.

19 postcodes in the BS28 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 14 high, 3 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 BS28 postcodes are at risk?

BS28 4HF up to High BS28 4HH up to High BS28 4JE up to High BS28 4JW up to High BS28 4SB up to High BS28 4SN up to High BS28 4SY up to High BS28 4TA up to High BS28 4TZ up to High BS28 4UB up to High BS28 4UD up to High BS28 4UE up to High BS28 4UF up to High BS28 4US up to High BS28 4JA up to Medium BS28 4PH up to Medium BS28 4SW up to Medium BS28 4QD up to Low BS28 4SH up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near BS28

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

North Drain on the North Drain — 5 km away, highest on record 3.09m
Fenny Castle on the River Sheppey — 6.4 km away, highest on record 1.17m
Cheddar Gorge on the Cheddar Yeo — 7.1 km away, highest on record 0.64m
Wookey on the River Axe — 8.5 km away, highest on record 1.40m

284 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 22 June 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Flood Extents_Winter 2013 to 2014 (2014) — about 7.9 km from the centre
Nov 2012 Floods (2012) — about 22.6 km from the centre
North Wessex Brue Parrett Yeo 2009 (2009) — about 5.3 km from the centre
EA112_North_Drain_Tealham (1979) — about 4.1 km from the centre

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

BS27 BS29 BS26 BS30 BS25 BS31 BS24 BS32

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.