Does BS29 flood?

Yes — parts of the BS29 district carry real flood risk: 8 of its 32 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BS29 postcode district covers Banwell & Winscombe, close to Congresbury, Cheddar Gorge, Wraxall Nailsea, and surrounding villages in parts of North Somerset and Somerset.

32 postcodes in the BS29 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 8 high, 5 medium, 7 low, 12 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 BS29 postcodes are at risk?

BS29 6BR up to High BS29 6BX up to High BS29 6DY up to High BS29 6DZ up to High BS29 6EB up to High BS29 6EF up to High BS29 6EL up to High BS29 6ET up to High BS29 6AN up to Medium BS29 6BU up to Medium BS29 6EG up to Medium BS29 6EJ up to Medium BS29 6LQ up to Medium BS29 6BZ up to Low BS29 6ED up to Low BS29 6EE up to Low BS29 6EH up to Low BS29 6JN up to Low BS29 6LA up to Low BS29 6LG up to Low BS29 6AP up to Very low BS29 6AR up to Very low BS29 6AT up to Very low BS29 6BY up to Very low BS29 6EN up to Very low BS29 6ER up to Very low BS29 6FE up to Very low BS29 6FF up to Very low BS29 6FG up to Very low BS29 6LB up to Very low BS29 6LE up to Very low BS29 6LH up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near BS29

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

149 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (38 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

BS28 BS30 BS27 BS31 BS26 BS32 BS25 BS24

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.