Does IP20 flood?

Yes — parts of the IP20 district carry real flood risk: 25 of its 36 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The IP20 postcode district covers Harleston, Fressingfield, Beck Vale, Dickleburgh & Scole, Ditchingham & Earsham, close to Oakley, Huntingfield, and surrounding villages in parts of Suffolk and Norfolk.

36 postcodes in the IP20 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 25 high, 2 medium, 9 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 IP20 postcodes are at risk?

IP20 0AE up to High IP20 0EJ up to High IP20 0EN up to High IP20 0EP up to High IP20 0ET up to High IP20 0HJ up to High IP20 0HP up to High IP20 0JE up to High IP20 0JG up to High IP20 0JH up to High IP20 0JP up to High IP20 0NN up to High IP20 9HE up to High IP20 9LB up to High IP20 9LD up to High IP20 9LE up to High IP20 9LG up to High IP20 9NJ up to High IP20 9NL up to High IP20 9NN up to High IP20 9NU up to High IP20 9QN up to High IP20 9QR up to High IP20 9QT up to High IP20 9QW up to High IP20 0JX up to Medium IP20 9HL up to Medium IP20 0AT up to Low IP20 0EF up to Low IP20 0EL up to Low IP20 0EX up to Low IP20 0NH up to Low IP20 0NL up to Low IP20 0PB up to Low IP20 9QP up to Low IP20 9QU up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near IP20

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

148 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (21 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

IP19 IP21 IP18 IP22 IP17 IP23 IP16 IP24

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.