Does BS6 flood?

Yes — parts of the BS6 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 22 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BS6 postcode district covers Ashley, Redland, Cotham, close to Bristol, Bristol Harbour Passage Street, Eastville, and surrounding villages in parts of City of Bristol and South Gloucestershire.

22 postcodes in the BS6 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 7 medium, 11 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 BS6 postcodes are at risk?

BS6 5QP up to High BS6 5QU up to High BS6 7AE up to High BS6 7BN up to High BS6 5AA up to Medium BS6 5HD up to Medium BS6 5HE up to Medium BS6 5QX up to Medium BS6 6AE up to Medium BS6 7AG up to Medium BS6 7BT up to Medium BS6 5AB up to Low BS6 5EE up to Low BS6 5JD up to Low BS6 5PA up to Low BS6 5QZ up to Low BS6 5RA up to Low BS6 5RB up to Low BS6 6AD up to Low BS6 6AF up to Low BS6 7AD up to Low BS6 7BJ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near BS6

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

Bristol Wade Street on the River Frome — 1.3 km away, highest on record 6.36m
Bristol Harbour Passage Street on the Bristol Frome — 1.7 km away, highest on record 6.54m
Eastville on the Bristol Frome — 1.8 km away, highest on record 9.08m
Bristol Bedminster St Johns Lane Upstream on the River Avon — 3.6 km away, highest on record 1.08m

546 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (66 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):

St Philip's Marsh, Bristol_Winter 2013 to 2014 (2014) — about 3.3 km from the centre
St Philip's Marsh, Bristol_Winter 2013 to 2014 (2014) — about 2.9 km from the centre
North Wessex Feb 2009 (2009) — about 7.9 km from the centre
EA112_Bristol, Cattle Market rd 1999 (1999) — about 2.5 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

BS5 BS7 BS4 BS8 BS3 BS9 BS10 BS2

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.