Does CT12 flood?

Yes — parts of the CT12 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 16 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CT12 postcode district covers Thanet Villages, Cliffsend and Pegwell, close to Sandwich, Upstreet, Wingham, and surrounding villages in Kent.

16 postcodes in the CT12 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high, 2 medium, 4 low, 8 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 CT12 postcodes are at risk?

CT12 4DD up to High CT12 5JB up to High CT12 5FH up to Medium CT12 5JZ up to Medium CT12 5DH up to Low CT12 5DJ up to Low CT12 5DL up to Low CT12 5DU up to Low CT12 4BD up to Very low CT12 4DA up to Very low CT12 4DB up to Very low CT12 4JD up to Very low CT12 4JF up to Very low CT12 4JG up to Very low CT12 4JH up to Very low CT12 5HQ up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near CT12

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

GroveFerry on the Great Stour — 8.4 km away, highest on record 2.66m
Wingham Bridge GS — 9.8 km away
Wingham Road on the Groundwater Level — 11 km away, highest on record 7.39m
LITTLEBOURNE USGS — 12.5 km away

229 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (17 at warning level or above), most recently 2 April 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

07309A100FEO_Lower_Stour (2001) — about 7.3 km from the centre
07309A100_NOV2000_Lower_Stour (2000) — about 7.4 km from the centre
07309A600A620_FEB1953_Wantsum (1953) — about 6.6 km from the centre
07309A500_FEB1953_Sandwich Bay_Deal (1953) — about 7.2 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

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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.