Does E3 flood?

Yes — parts of the E3 district carry real flood risk: 24 of its 44 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The E3 postcode district covers Bow East, Lansbury, Bromley North, Bromley South, close to Stoke Newington, Charlton, Tower Pier, and surrounding villages in Greater London.

44 postcodes in the E3 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 24 high, 1 medium, 5 low, 14 very 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 E3 postcodes are at risk?

E3 2NG up to High E3 2NH up to High E3 2NJ up to High E3 2NQ up to High E3 2NR up to High E3 2NT up to High E3 2NX up to High E3 2PE up to High E3 2PN up to High E3 2RE up to High E3 2RF up to High E3 2RG up to High E3 2RP up to High E3 2SZ up to High E3 2TG up to High E3 2UY up to High E3 2XA up to High E3 2XE up to High E3 3BW up to High E3 3DU up to High E3 3JY up to High E3 3TG up to High E3 3TP up to High E3 3XN up to High E3 2QW up to Medium E3 2NN up to Low E3 2PW up to Low E3 3TJ up to Low E3 3TL up to Low E3 3TN up to Low E3 2JG up to Very low E3 2JJ up to Very low E3 2JP up to Very low E3 2SY up to Very low E3 2TT up to Very low E3 3DA up to Very low E3 3JL up to Very low E3 3JW up to Very low E3 3RT up to Very low E3 3RZ up to Very low E3 3TH up to Very low E3 3XJ up to Very low E3 3XL up to Very low E3 3XP up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near E3

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

133 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (5 at warning level or above), most recently 3 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

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

E2 E4 E1 E1W 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.