Does BS49 flood?

Yes — parts of the BS49 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 78 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BS49 postcode district covers Yatton, close to Congresbury, Wraxall Nailsea, Cheddar Gorge, and surrounding villages in parts of North Somerset and Somerset.

78 postcodes in the BS49 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 2 medium, 31 low, 42 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 BS49 postcodes are at risk?

BS49 4RN up to High BS49 5ED up to High BS49 5EY up to High BS49 4BT up to Medium BS49 5EB up to Medium BS49 4BP up to Low BS49 4FP up to Low BS49 4QF up to Low BS49 4QN up to Low BS49 4RH up to Low BS49 5AA up to Low BS49 5BA up to Low BS49 5BB up to Low BS49 5BD up to Low BS49 5BF up to Low BS49 5BP up to Low BS49 5BW up to Low BS49 5BX up to Low BS49 5BY up to Low BS49 5DD up to Low BS49 5DF up to Low BS49 5DG up to Low BS49 5DH up to Low BS49 5DJ up to Low BS49 5DN up to Low BS49 5DP up to Low BS49 5DQ up to Low BS49 5DR up to Low BS49 5DW up to Low BS49 5DX up to Low BS49 5DY up to Low BS49 5DZ up to Low BS49 5EA up to Low BS49 5EN up to Low BS49 5JA up to Low BS49 5JX up to Low BS49 4AL up to Very low BS49 4AQ up to Very low BS49 4AR up to Very low BS49 4AT up to Very low BS49 4AU up to Very low BS49 4AW up to Very low BS49 4AY up to Very low BS49 4AZ up to Very low BS49 4BD up to Very low BS49 4BE up to Very low BS49 4BH up to Very low BS49 4BJ up to Very low BS49 4BL up to Very low BS49 4BN up to Very low BS49 4BQ up to Very low BS49 4BS up to Very low BS49 4BW up to Very low BS49 4BY up to Very low BS49 4BZ up to Very low BS49 4DE up to Very low BS49 4DF up to Very low BS49 4DG up to Very low BS49 4DL up to Very low BS49 4EU up to Very low BS49 4FG up to Very low BS49 4GR up to Very low BS49 4HU up to Very low BS49 4JB up to Very low BS49 4PX up to Very low BS49 4PZ up to Very low BS49 4QG up to Very low BS49 4QH up to Very low BS49 4QJ up to Very low BS49 4QL up to Very low BS49 4QQ up to Very low BS49 4QX up to Very low BS49 4RA up to Very low BS49 4RE up to Very low BS49 4RQ up to Very low BS49 5BU up to Very low BS49 5DS up to Very low BS49 5DT up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near BS49

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

172 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 7 April 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

BS48 BS41 BS40 BS39 BS37 BS36 BS35 BS34

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.