Does BS8 flood?

Yes — parts of the BS8 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 28 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BS8 postcode district covers Hotwells and Harbourside, Clifton, Pill, Clifton Down, close to Leigh Woods, Malago, Bristol Harbour Passage Street, and surrounding villages in parts of City of Bristol and South Gloucestershire.

28 postcodes in the BS8 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 7 medium, 17 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 BS8 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near BS8

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

Ashton Vale on the River Avon — 1.5 km away, highest on record 3.60m
Bristol Bedminster St Johns Lane Upstream on the River Avon — 2.2 km away, highest on record 1.08m
Bristol Harbour Passage Street on the Bristol Frome — 2.4 km away, highest on record 6.54m
Colliters Brook on the Colliters Brook — 2.8 km away, highest on record 1.40m

575 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (176 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):

EA112_Bristol, Cattle Market rd 1999 (1999) — about 2.9 km from the centre
EA112_Bristol, Cumberland 1999 (1999) — about 0.4 km from the centre
EA112_Bristol, StAugustineP 1982 (1982) — about 1.6 km from the centre
EA112_Bristol, Cothamrd 1982 (1982) — about 2 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

BS7 BS9 BS10 BS6 BS11 BS5 BS4 BS13

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.