Does EX18 flood?

Yes — parts of the EX18 district carry real flood risk: 9 of its 14 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The EX18 postcode district covers Taw Vale, Winkleigh, Upper Yeo & Taw, Chulmleigh, close to Brushford, Lapford, Burrington, and surrounding villages in Devon.

14 postcodes in the EX18 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 9 high, 2 medium, 3 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 EX18 postcodes are at risk?

EX18 7BD up to High EX18 7BE up to High EX18 7EA up to High EX18 7ES up to High EX18 7JX up to High EX18 7JY up to High EX18 7SH up to High EX18 7SJ up to High EX18 7SL up to High EX18 7LF up to Medium EX18 7QH up to Medium EX18 7HU up to Low EX18 7QQ up to Low EX18 7QT up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near EX18

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

Chulmleigh on the Little Dart River — 2.8 km away, highest on record 2.62m
Taw Bridge on the River Taw — 4.5 km away, highest on record 2.99m
Lapford on the River Yeo — 5.9 km away, highest on record 3.99m
Newnham Bridge on the River Taw — 6.2 km away, highest on record 4.00m

181 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (38 at warning level or above), most recently 30 January 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Autumn 2000 Event - Bridge Reeve (2000) — about 2.5 km from the centre
Jul-82 (1982) — about 0.6 km from the centre
Jan 9th 1968 Flood Event (1968) — about 1.5 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

EX17 EX19 EX16 EX20 EX15 EX21 EX14 EX22

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.