Does IP23 flood?

Yes — parts of the IP23 district carry real flood risk: 12 of its 26 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The IP23 postcode district covers Eye, Gislingham, Mendlesham, Palgrave, close to Oakley, Diss, Debenham, and surrounding villages in parts of Suffolk and Norfolk.

26 postcodes in the IP23 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 12 high, 2 medium, 12 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 IP23 postcodes are at risk?

IP23 7AQ up to High IP23 7AS up to High IP23 7EB up to High IP23 7HX up to High IP23 7NH up to High IP23 7NJ up to High IP23 7QR up to High IP23 7QS up to High IP23 7QT up to High IP23 8EA up to High IP23 8LH up to High IP23 8LP up to High IP23 8FB up to Medium IP23 8JR up to Medium IP23 7AE up to Low IP23 7AJ up to Low IP23 7DA up to Low IP23 7EG up to Low IP23 7HF up to Low IP23 7HY up to Low IP23 7JG up to Low IP23 8BG up to Low IP23 8BY up to Low IP23 8HB up to Low IP23 8HH up to Low IP23 8JQ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near IP23

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

No official flood warning or alert is on record for areas near the centre of this district since 2006. No warning on record here means the Environment Agency has issued no flood warning or alert for a flood area within that distance since its record begins in 2006. Warnings are issued for areas, not addresses, and when flooding is expected rather than when it happens, and the record covers England only — so this is the state of the warning record, not evidence a place has not flooded.

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

IP22 IP24 IP21 IP25 IP20 IP26 IP19 IP27

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.