Does E1 flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in E1: none of its 1 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The E1 postcode district sits close to Tower Pier, Westminster, Charlton and surrounding villages in England.

1 postcode in the E1 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 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 E1 postcodes are at risk?

E1 9LD up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near E1

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

Lea Bridge on the River Lee — 7 km away, highest on record 6.52m
Manor House Gardens on the River Quaggy — 7.9 km away, highest on record 1.08m
Catford Hill on the River Ravensbourne — 7.9 km away, highest on record 1.20m
Winsford Road on the River Pool — 8.5 km away, highest on record 0.89m

107 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006, most recently 3 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

TTD_FEO_1928 (1928) — about 1.5 km from the centre
TTD_FEO_1928 (1928) — about 0.3 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

E1W E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E8 E9

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.