Does BS4 flood?

Yes — parts of the BS4 district carry real flood risk: 26 of its 62 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BS4 postcode district covers Stockwood, Knowle, close to Brislington, Bristol, Bristol Harbour Passage Street, and surrounding villages in parts of City of Bristol and South Gloucestershire.

62 postcodes in the BS4 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 26 high, 14 medium, 20 low, 2 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 BS4 postcodes are at risk?

BS4 1FY up to High BS4 3EP up to High BS4 3QF up to High BS4 4JU up to High BS4 4LF up to High BS4 4LT up to High BS4 4LY up to High BS4 4ND up to High BS4 4NF up to High BS4 4NG up to High BS4 4NQ up to High BS4 4RP up to High BS4 4RQ up to High BS4 4SX up to High BS4 5AD up to High BS4 5AE up to High BS4 5AF up to High BS4 5AG up to High BS4 5AP up to High BS4 5BG up to High BS4 5BL up to High BS4 5BP up to High BS4 5DJ up to High BS4 5DP up to High BS4 5DR up to High BS4 5DY up to High BS4 3AR up to Medium BS4 3DL up to Medium BS4 3EH up to Medium BS4 3ER up to Medium BS4 4AB up to Medium BS4 4DY up to Medium BS4 4EB up to Medium BS4 4ED up to Medium BS4 4EU up to Medium BS4 4JS up to Medium BS4 4LG up to Medium BS4 4RH up to Medium BS4 4SL up to Medium BS4 5DT up to Medium BS4 3AQ up to Low BS4 3EJ up to Low BS4 3QH up to Low BS4 3QQ up to Low BS4 4AA up to Low BS4 4AR up to Low BS4 4AX up to Low BS4 4DG up to Low BS4 4DH up to Low BS4 4DQ up to Low BS4 4DZ up to Low BS4 4ES up to Low BS4 4EX up to Low BS4 4GH up to Low BS4 4HX up to Low BS4 4PU up to Low BS4 4PX up to Low BS4 4WW up to Low BS4 5EE up to Low BS4 5EQ up to Low BS4 4JT up to Very low BS4 4LA up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near BS4

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

455 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (56 at warning level or above), most recently 15 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

BS3 BS5 BS2 BS6 BS1 BS7 BS8 BS9

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.