Does CV2 flood?

Yes — parts of the CV2 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 16 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CV2 postcode district covers Henley, Longford, Wyken, Upper Stoke, close to Wolston, Nuneaton, Stareton, and surrounding villages in parts of West Midlands and Warwickshire.

16 postcodes in the CV2 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 4 medium, 8 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 CV2 postcodes are at risk?

CV2 1NH up to High CV2 1NJ up to High CV2 1PB up to High CV2 1PD up to High CV2 1JG up to Medium CV2 1UT up to Medium CV2 2FZ up to Medium CV2 3LX up to Medium CV2 1BL up to Low CV2 1JY up to Low CV2 1QT up to Low CV2 2FU up to Low CV2 2TA up to Low CV2 2TW up to Low CV2 5AQ up to Low CV2 5AS up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near CV2

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

Hall Green Road on the River Sowe — 1.1 km away, highest on record 2.10m
Longford on the River Sowe — 2.2 km away, highest on record 1.73m
Charterhouse Bridge on the River Sherbourne — 4.4 km away, highest on record 2.01m
Hope Street, Coventry on the River Sherbourne — 5.2 km away, highest on record 2.54m

110 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (48 at warning level or above), most recently 28 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

M_LS_Jan_1985 (1985) — about 36.5 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

CV1 CV3 CV4 CV5 CV6 CV7 CV8 CV9

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.