Does GL12 flood?

Yes — parts of the GL12 district carry real flood risk: 37 of its 54 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The GL12 postcode district covers Charfield, Kingswood, Wotton-under-Edge, Frampton Cotterell, close to Berkeley, Cam, Chipping Sodbury, and surrounding villages in parts of Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire.

54 postcodes in the GL12 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 37 high, 10 medium, 7 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 GL12 postcodes are at risk?

GL12 7JE up to High GL12 7JW up to High GL12 7LF up to High GL12 7NG up to High GL12 7NJ up to High GL12 7NP up to High GL12 7QT up to High GL12 7QU up to High GL12 7RL up to High GL12 7RR up to High GL12 8AS up to High GL12 8AT up to High GL12 8AW up to High GL12 8BS up to High GL12 8BU up to High GL12 8DB up to High GL12 8DP up to High GL12 8EF up to High GL12 8EJ up to High GL12 8ES up to High GL12 8EX up to High GL12 8JP up to High GL12 8JX up to High GL12 8LT up to High GL12 8PD up to High GL12 8QF up to High GL12 8RA up to High GL12 8RL up to High GL12 8RN up to High GL12 8RP up to High GL12 8SA up to High GL12 8SB up to High GL12 8SJ up to High GL12 8SL up to High GL12 8ST up to High GL12 8SU up to High GL12 8TR up to High GL12 7EJ up to Medium GL12 7HF up to Medium GL12 7LG up to Medium GL12 7NQ up to Medium GL12 8BD up to Medium GL12 8JR up to Medium GL12 8LS up to Medium GL12 8RF up to Medium GL12 8SP up to Medium GL12 8SZ up to Medium GL12 7NT up to Low GL12 7PW up to Low GL12 8DQ up to Low GL12 8ET up to Low GL12 8HB up to Low GL12 8LD up to Low GL12 8RU up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near GL12

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

90 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 13 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

GL11 GL13 GL10 GL14 GL15 GL9 GL16 GL8

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.