Does CV6 flood?

Yes — parts of the CV6 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 10 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CV6 postcode district covers Longford, close to Nuneaton, Wolston, Kenilworth, and surrounding villages in parts of West Midlands and Warwickshire.

10 postcodes in the CV6 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 1 medium, 5 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 CV6 postcodes are at risk?

CV6 6AG up to High CV6 6AH up to High CV6 6JD up to High CV6 6JF up to High CV6 7BT up to Medium CV6 6AN up to Low CV6 7HD up to Low CV6 7HH up to Low CV6 7LH up to Low CV6 7LQ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near CV6

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

Longford on the River Sowe — 0.3 km away, highest on record 1.73m
Hall Green Road on the River Sowe — 0.8 km away, highest on record 2.10m
Charterhouse Bridge on the River Sherbourne — 4.8 km away, highest on record 2.01m
Hope Street, Coventry on the River Sherbourne — 4.9 km away, highest on record 2.54m

96 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (34 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 36.3 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

CV5 CV7 CV4 CV8 CV3 CV9 CV10 CV2

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.