Does EC4Y flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in EC4Y: none of its 30 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The EC4Y postcode district covers Farringdon Without, Castle Baynard, St James's, close to Westminster, Tower Pier, Stoke Newington, and surrounding villages in parts of England and Greater London.

30 postcodes in the EC4Y district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 30 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 EC4Y postcodes are at risk?

EC4Y 0AB up to Very low EC4Y 0AF up to Very low EC4Y 0AN up to Very low EC4Y 0BS up to Very low EC4Y 0DA up to Very low EC4Y 0DF up to Very low EC4Y 0DS up to Very low EC4Y 0DZ up to Very low EC4Y 0HA up to Very low EC4Y 0HB up to Very low EC4Y 0HP up to Very low EC4Y 7AT up to Very low EC4Y 7DU up to Very low EC4Y 7DX up to Very low EC4Y 7EB up to Very low EC4Y 7EL up to Very low EC4Y 7EN up to Very low EC4Y 7EQ up to Very low EC4Y 7ET up to Very low EC4Y 7EU up to Very low EC4Y 7EX up to Very low EC4Y 7HB up to Very low EC4Y 9AU up to Very low EC4Y 9AY up to Very low EC4Y 9BB up to Very low EC4Y 9BS up to Very low EC4Y 9BT up to Very low EC4Y 9BW up to Very low EC4Y 9DA up to Very low EC4Y 9DB up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near EC4Y

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

109 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):

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

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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.