Does EN2 flood?

Yes — parts of the EN2 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 16 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The EN2 postcode district covers Ridgeway, Whitewebbs, Oakwood, close to Winchmore Hill, Enfield Wash, Edmonton, and surrounding villages in parts of England and Hertfordshire.

16 postcodes in the EN2 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 4 medium, 3 low, 5 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 EN2 postcodes are at risk?

EN2 7DA up to High EN2 7JY up to High EN2 9BH up to High EN2 9JA up to High EN2 7EB up to Medium EN2 7ED up to Medium EN2 7JZ up to Medium EN2 9HA up to Medium EN2 7QZ up to Low EN2 7RA up to Low EN2 9AJ up to Low EN2 7DU up to Very low EN2 7EA up to Very low EN2 7ES up to Very low EN2 7QU up to Very low EN2 9HB up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near EN2

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

Enfield, The Chine on the Salmon Brook — 1.8 km away, highest on record 2.42m
Enfield, Albany Park on the Turkey Brook — 4.5 km away, highest on record 1.39m
Edmonton Green on the Salmon Brook — 4.5 km away, highest on record 1.19m
New Barnet on the Pymmes Brook — 4.6 km away, highest on record 1.11m

153 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (4 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):

January 2021 flooding — about 1.8 km from the centre
June 2012 flooding — about 0.8 km from the centre
December 2000 flooding — about 1.8 km from the centre
September 1992 flooding — about 9.6 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

EN1 EN3 EN4 EN5 EN6 EN7 EN8 EN9

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.