Does DA5 flood?

Yes — parts of the DA5 district carry real flood risk: 8 of its 35 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The DA5 postcode district covers St Mary's & St James, Blendon & Penhill, Crayford, close to Coldblow, Sidcup, Petts Wood, and surrounding villages in parts of England and Kent.

35 postcodes in the DA5 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 8 high, 6 medium, 21 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 DA5 postcodes are at risk?

DA5 1BF up to High DA5 1BJ up to High DA5 1JA up to High DA5 1JT up to High DA5 1JX up to High DA5 1LA up to High DA5 1LB up to High DA5 3AU up to High DA5 1JB up to Medium DA5 1LG up to Medium DA5 1RH up to Medium DA5 3EA up to Medium DA5 3ES up to Medium DA5 3EU up to Medium DA5 1JD up to Low DA5 1JF up to Low DA5 1JS up to Low DA5 1JY up to Low DA5 1LE up to Low DA5 1LW up to Low DA5 1PQ up to Low DA5 1QT up to Low DA5 1QU up to Low DA5 1RE up to Low DA5 1RG up to Low DA5 1RQ up to Low DA5 3AN up to Low DA5 3AT up to Low DA5 3BA up to Low DA5 3BN up to Low DA5 3EE up to Low DA5 3ET up to Low DA5 3LL up to Low DA5 3LZ up to Low DA5 3PT up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near DA5

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

Hall Place on the River Cray — 1.5 km away, highest on record 1.35m
Lamorbey Park on the Shuttle Tributary Cray — 1.7 km away, highest on record 2.33m
Crayford on the River Cray — 2.6 km away, highest on record 1.32m
CRAYFORD GS — 2.6 km away

259 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (22 at warning level or above), most recently 27 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

07337E300_AUG1977_River Cray_Old Bexley/St Mary's (1977) — about 1.6 km from the centre
07337E200_SEPT1968_Cray_Dartford (1968) — about 1.6 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

DA4 DA2 DA8 DA1 DA9 DA10 DA11 DA12

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.