Does BS7 flood?

Yes — parts of the BS7 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 7 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BS7 postcode district covers Redland, Horfield, Ashley, Bishopston and Ashley Down, close to Eastville, Bristol, Bristol Harbour Passage Street, and surrounding villages in parts of City of Bristol and South Gloucestershire.

7 postcodes in the BS7 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 1 medium, 2 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 BS7 postcodes are at risk?

BS7 8DE up to High BS7 9NB up to High BS7 9NG up to High BS7 8DA up to Medium BS7 0JN up to Low BS7 8AA up to Low BS7 8PE up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near BS7

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

Eastville on the Bristol Frome — 1.6 km away, highest on record 9.08m
BRISTOL WADE STREET — 2 km away
Bristol Wade Street on the River Frome — 2 km away, highest on record 6.36m
Bristol Harbour Passage Street on the Bristol Frome — 2.6 km away, highest on record 6.54m

551 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (71 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):

North Wessex Feb 2009 (2009) — about 8.1 km from the centre
EA112_Bristol, StAugustineP 1982 (1982) — about 2.8 km from the centre
EA112_Bristol, Cothamrd 1982 (1982) — about 1.9 km from the centre
EA112_Bristol, Grosvenor Rd 1982 (1982) — about 1.3 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

BS6 BS8 BS5 BS9 BS10 BS4 BS11 BS3

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.