Does CM24 flood?

Yes — parts of the CM24 district carry real flood risk: 9 of its 21 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CM24 postcode district covers Stansted North, Stansted South & Birchanger, Takeley, close to Stansted Mountfitchet, Bishop's Stortford, Little Hadham, and surrounding villages in parts of Essex and Hertfordshire.

21 postcodes in the CM24 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 9 high, 2 medium, 10 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 CM24 postcodes are at risk?

CM24 1PZ up to High CM24 8BE up to High CM24 8BJ up to High CM24 8LN up to High CM24 8LP up to High CM24 8LR up to High CM24 8NB up to High CM24 8PL up to High CM24 8XG up to High CM24 8AG up to Medium CM24 8XH up to Medium CM24 8AX up to Low CM24 8BH up to Low CM24 8LS up to Low CM24 8LY up to Low CM24 8NE up to Low CM24 8NG up to Low CM24 8SS up to Low CM24 8TP up to Low CM24 8TY up to Low CM24 8XJ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near CM24

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

Bishops Stortford, Grange Paddocks on the River Stort — 3.7 km away, highest on record 1.80m
Little Hadham on the River Ash — 7.8 km away, highest on record 1.97m
Clavering on the River Stort — 8.2 km away, highest on record 2.33m
Furneux Pelham on the River Ash — 8.6 km away, highest on record 1.69m

63 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (9 at warning level or above), most recently 16 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

EA06JanuaryWinter2024 (2024) — about 3 km from the centre
February 2014 flooding — about 3.2 km from the centre
February 2009 flooding — about 9.8 km from the centre
October 2001 flooding — about 5.3 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

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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.