Does HP16 flood?

Parts of the HP16 district carry moderate flood risk: 1 of its 2 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's Medium likelihood band. The HP16 postcode district covers The Missendens, close to Little Missenden, Chesham, High Wycombe, and surrounding villages in Buckinghamshire.

2 postcodes in the HP16 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 medium, 1 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 HP16 postcodes are at risk?

HP16 9AX up to Medium HP16 0AZ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near HP16

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

Missenden on the River Misbourne — 5.4 km away, highest on record 0.46m
Chesham on the River Chess — 7.2 km away, highest on record 0.88m
Piddington on the Groundwater Level — 8.2 km away, highest on record 107.65m
Weston Turville on the Wendover Springs — 9.6 km away, highest on record 0.83m

5 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006, most recently 26 March 2024. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

January 2021 flooding — about 1 km from the centre
Winter 2013/2014 (2013) — about 20 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

HP17 HP14 HP18 HP13 HP19 HP12 HP20 HP11

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.