Does CO13 flood?

Yes — parts of the CO13 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 13 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CO13 postcode district covers Frinton, Kirby-le-Soken & Hamford, Thorpe, Beaumont & Great Holland, close to Clacton-On-Sea, and surrounding villages in Essex.

13 postcodes in the CO13 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 2 medium, 6 low, 2 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 CO13 postcodes are at risk?

CO13 0DS up to High CO13 0EH up to High CO13 9ES up to High CO13 0EZ up to Medium CO13 9EZ up to Medium CO13 9DP up to Low CO13 9EN up to Low CO13 9EP up to Low CO13 9ER up to Low CO13 9HN up to Low CO13 9NL up to Low CO13 0DA up to Very low CO13 9EY up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near CO13

10 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (10 at warning level or above), most recently 5 January 2022. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

2013 Flood Outline (2013) — about 53.1 km from the centre
1968 September Flood Outline (1968) — about 42.9 km from the centre
1958 Flood Outline (1958) — about 49.5 km from the centre
1953 Coast Flood Outline Essex (1953) — about 30.9 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

CO12 CO14 CO11 CO15 CO10 CO16 CO9 CO8

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.