Does IP16 flood?

Yes — parts of the IP16 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 35 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The IP16 postcode district covers Aldeburgh & Leiston, Kelsale & Yoxford, close to Saxmundham, Snape, Stratford St Andrew, and surrounding villages in Suffolk.

35 postcodes in the IP16 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 6 medium, 5 low, 20 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 IP16 postcodes are at risk?

IP16 4NJ up to High IP16 4TG up to High IP16 4UR up to High IP16 4WG up to High IP16 4NW up to Medium IP16 4NY up to Medium IP16 4NZ up to Medium IP16 4PB up to Medium IP16 4RY up to Medium IP16 4UJ up to Medium IP16 4NR up to Low IP16 4PA up to Low IP16 4PD up to Low IP16 4QF up to Low IP16 4SG up to Low IP16 4ND up to Very low IP16 4NL up to Very low IP16 4NN up to Very low IP16 4NP up to Very low IP16 4NT up to Very low IP16 4QJ up to Very low IP16 4QR up to Very low IP16 4QS up to Very low IP16 4RP up to Very low IP16 4RW up to Very low IP16 4SD up to Very low IP16 4SE up to Very low IP16 4SF up to Very low IP16 4SH up to Very low IP16 4SL up to Very low IP16 4SN up to Very low IP16 4SP up to Very low IP16 4SQ up to Very low IP16 4UH up to Very low IP16 4UP up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near IP16

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

206 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (20 at warning level or above), most recently 29 March 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

IP15 IP17 IP14 IP18 IP13 IP19 IP12 IP20

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.