Does CT17 flood?

Yes — parts of the CT17 district carry real flood risk: 21 of its 46 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CT17 postcode district covers Town & Castle, St Radigunds, Buckland, close to Dover, Folkestone, and surrounding villages in Kent.

46 postcodes in the CT17 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 21 high, 6 medium, 19 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 CT17 postcodes are at risk?

CT17 0FA up to High CT17 0FX up to High CT17 0RW up to High CT17 0TG up to High CT17 0US up to High CT17 0UY up to High CT17 9BJ up to High CT17 9BN up to High CT17 9BS up to High CT17 9BU up to High CT17 9BX up to High CT17 9BY up to High CT17 9BZ up to High CT17 9DG up to High CT17 9DT up to High CT17 9EG up to High CT17 9EQ up to High CT17 9FE up to High CT17 9FJ up to High CT17 9FP up to High CT17 9FS up to High CT17 0JB up to Medium CT17 0RE up to Medium CT17 0RF up to Medium CT17 9DH up to Medium CT17 9DN up to Medium CT17 9TZ up to Medium CT17 0FG up to Low CT17 0FL up to Low CT17 0JX up to Low CT17 0LW up to Low CT17 0NQ up to Low CT17 0QD up to Low CT17 0QU up to Low CT17 0QY up to Low CT17 0QZ up to Low CT17 0RB up to Low CT17 0RS up to Low CT17 0TB up to Low CT17 0TD up to Low CT17 0TF up to Low CT17 0TH up to Low CT17 0TQ up to Low CT17 0TR up to Low CT17 0TX up to Low CT17 9TF up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near CT17

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

60 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 6 November 2025. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

No recorded flood extent is mapped near this district's centre. No recorded outline near the district means no flood was mapped here, which is not evidence none happened: the Environment Agency mapped only some floods, mapping effort rose sharply after about 2000, and surface-water flooding is largely absent from this record.

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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.