Does HP27 flood?

Yes — parts of the HP27 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 13 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The HP27 postcode district covers Princes Risborough, Ridgeway West, close to Wye, Weston Turville, Aylesbury, and surrounding villages in Buckinghamshire.

13 postcodes in the HP27 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 5 medium, 5 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 HP27 postcodes are at risk?

HP27 9DT up to High HP27 9NF up to High HP27 9QU up to High HP27 9AU up to Medium HP27 9BA up to Medium HP27 9DN up to Medium HP27 9QL up to Medium HP27 9SA up to Medium HP27 9AY up to Low HP27 9BS up to Low HP27 9DX up to Low HP27 9PW up to Low HP27 9TA up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near HP27

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

Piddington on the Groundwater Level — 5.6 km away, highest on record 107.65m
Weston Turville on the Wendover Springs — 9.2 km away, highest on record 0.83m
Thame Bridge on the River Thame — 9.6 km away, highest on record 2.99m
Cuddington on the River Thame — 10.1 km away, highest on record 2.59m

144 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006, most recently 18 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Winter 2013/2014 (2013) — about 19.4 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

HP23 HP22 HP21 HP20 HP19 HP18 HP17 HP16

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.