Does IG3 flood?

Yes — parts of the IG3 district carry real flood risk: 19 of its 110 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The IG3 postcode district covers Mayfield, Goodmayes, Seven Kings, Newbury, close to Wanstead, Romford, Elm Park, and surrounding villages in parts of England and Essex.

110 postcodes in the IG3 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 19 high, 14 medium, 75 low, 2 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 IG3 postcodes are at risk?

IG3 8HW up to High IG3 8PP up to High IG3 8PS up to High IG3 8PW up to High IG3 8PX up to High IG3 8QA up to High IG3 8QB up to High IG3 8QD up to High IG3 8RE up to High IG3 8RH up to High IG3 8RL up to High IG3 8RN up to High IG3 8RQ up to High IG3 8RU up to High IG3 8SE up to High IG3 8UJ up to High IG3 9AA up to High IG3 9AB up to High IG3 9AD up to High IG3 8AA up to Medium IG3 8AG up to Medium IG3 8AQ up to Medium IG3 8PH up to Medium IG3 8PR up to Medium IG3 8PY up to Medium IG3 9AG up to Medium IG3 9AQ up to Medium IG3 9HF up to Medium IG3 9HT up to Medium IG3 9JE up to Medium IG3 9JG up to Medium IG3 9JS up to Medium IG3 9TN up to Medium IG3 8AX up to Low IG3 8AY up to Low IG3 8AZ up to Low IG3 8BA up to Low IG3 8BB up to Low IG3 8DF up to Low IG3 8DG up to Low IG3 8DH up to Low IG3 8DJ up to Low IG3 8DL up to Low IG3 8DN up to Low IG3 8DP up to Low IG3 8DQ up to Low IG3 8DR up to Low IG3 8DS up to Low IG3 8DW up to Low IG3 8PT up to Low IG3 8PU up to Low IG3 8RS up to Low IG3 8RW up to Low IG3 8SB up to Low IG3 8SF up to Low IG3 8UL up to Low IG3 9AE up to Low IG3 9AH up to Low IG3 9AJ up to Low IG3 9AL up to Low IG3 9AS up to Low IG3 9AU up to Low IG3 9BG up to Low IG3 9FD up to Low IG3 9FE up to Low IG3 9FG up to Low IG3 9FL up to Low IG3 9FP up to Low IG3 9HA up to Low IG3 9HB up to Low IG3 9HD up to Low IG3 9HE up to Low IG3 9HH up to Low IG3 9HL up to Low IG3 9HP up to Low IG3 9HS up to Low IG3 9HW up to Low IG3 9JF up to Low IG3 9JH up to Low IG3 9JL up to Low IG3 9JN up to Low IG3 9JP up to Low IG3 9JQ up to Low IG3 9JR up to Low IG3 9JU up to Low IG3 9JW up to Low IG3 9JX up to Low IG3 9JZ up to Low IG3 9LA up to Low IG3 9LB up to Low IG3 9LD up to Low IG3 9LZ up to Low IG3 9NA up to Low IG3 9NB up to Low IG3 9NG up to Low IG3 9NL up to Low IG3 9NQ up to Low IG3 9PX up to Low IG3 9TF up to Low IG3 9TG up to Low IG3 9TH up to Low IG3 9TL up to Low IG3 9TQ up to Low IG3 9TY up to Low IG3 9XY up to Low IG3 9XZ up to Low IG3 9YB up to Low IG3 9YD up to Low IG3 9HG up to Very low IG3 9HN up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near IG3

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

234 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (24 at warning level or above), most recently 27 August 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

IG2 IG4 IG1 IG6 IG7 IG8 IG9 IG10

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.