Does IG7 flood?

Yes — parts of the IG7 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 8 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The IG7 postcode district covers Chigwell with Lambourne, close to Loughton, Abridge, Chingford, and surrounding villages in parts of England and Essex.

8 postcodes in the IG7 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high, 2 medium, 4 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 IG7 postcodes are at risk?

IG7 6BH up to High IG7 6DQ up to High IG7 6BX up to Medium IG7 6BZ up to Medium IG7 5AA up to Low IG7 5AZ up to Low IG7 5DF up to Low IG7 6BJ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near IG7

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

Loughton on the River Roding — 1.8 km away, highest on record 1.86m
Abridge on the River Roding — 4.2 km away, highest on record 2.68m
Chingford on the Ching Brook — 4.8 km away, highest on record 2.31m
Redbridge on the River Roding — 5.9 km away, highest on record 2.30m

137 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):

January 2021 flooding — about 1.5 km from the centre
December 2019 flooding — about 1.4 km from the centre
January 2015 flooding — about 4.1 km from the centre
January 2015 flooding — about 1.8 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

IG6 IG8 IG9 IG10 IG4 IG11 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.