Does IG10 flood?

Yes — parts of the IG10 district carry real flood risk: 15 of its 54 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The IG10 postcode district covers Buckhurst Hill East & Whitebridge, close to Loughton, Abridge, Chingford, and surrounding villages in parts of England and Essex.

54 postcodes in the IG10 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 15 high, 6 medium, 27 low, 6 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 IG10 postcodes are at risk?

IG10 1AH up to High IG10 1AQ up to High IG10 1BL up to High IG10 1HA up to High IG10 1RB up to High IG10 2DX up to High IG10 2FF up to High IG10 2JU up to High IG10 2LZ up to High IG10 2NA up to High IG10 2NB up to High IG10 2NP up to High IG10 2NW up to High IG10 3DJ up to High IG10 3LQ up to High IG10 1BJ up to Medium IG10 1EA up to Medium IG10 1ET up to Medium IG10 1EZ up to Medium IG10 1HB up to Medium IG10 2PD up to Medium IG10 1AD up to Low IG10 1AL up to Low IG10 1DZ up to Low IG10 1HN up to Low IG10 2JX up to Low IG10 3AA up to Low IG10 3AB up to Low IG10 3AD up to Low IG10 3AE up to Low IG10 3BF up to Low IG10 3BS up to Low IG10 3BU up to Low IG10 3BX up to Low IG10 3BZ up to Low IG10 3DA up to Low IG10 3DB up to Low IG10 3DD up to Low IG10 3DE up to Low IG10 3DF up to Low IG10 3DG up to Low IG10 3DH up to Low IG10 3DQ up to Low IG10 3ED up to Low IG10 3EJ up to Low IG10 3EN up to Low IG10 3NH up to Low IG10 3NJ up to Low IG10 1BW up to Very low IG10 1ED up to Very low IG10 1EF up to Very low IG10 1HG up to Very low IG10 3JA up to Very low IG10 4PD up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near IG10

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

123 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (18 at warning level or above), most recently 16 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

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

IG11 IG9 IG8 IG7 IG6 IG4 IG3 IG2

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.