Does IP24 flood?

Yes — parts of the IP24 district carry real flood risk: 17 of its 40 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The IP24 postcode district covers Bardwell, close to Thetford, Abbey Heath, Knettishall, and surrounding villages in Norfolk.

40 postcodes in the IP24 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 17 high, 6 medium, 17 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 IP24 postcodes are at risk?

IP24 1BN up to High IP24 2BB up to High IP24 2BG up to High IP24 2BQ up to High IP24 2DP up to High IP24 2EF up to High IP24 2ER up to High IP24 2ET up to High IP24 2QW up to High IP24 2RP up to High IP24 2RX up to High IP24 2SB up to High IP24 3AF up to High IP24 3BU up to High IP24 3BX up to High IP24 3BY up to High IP24 3PW up to High IP24 1QS up to Medium IP24 2EU up to Medium IP24 2QG up to Medium IP24 3AL up to Medium IP24 3AQ up to Medium IP24 3AX up to Medium IP24 1DX up to Low IP24 1EY up to Low IP24 1QE up to Low IP24 2DN up to Low IP24 2EG up to Low IP24 2PZ up to Low IP24 2QX up to Low IP24 2RL up to Low IP24 2UR up to Low IP24 2UY up to Low IP24 2XD up to Low IP24 3AA up to Low IP24 3AB up to Low IP24 3AD up to Low IP24 3AE up to Low IP24 3AY up to Low IP24 3PE up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near IP24

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

6 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (6 at warning level or above), most recently 22 October 2023. 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

IP23 IP25 IP22 IP26 IP21 IP27 IP20 IP28

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.