Does IP27 flood?

Yes — parts of the IP27 district carry real flood risk: 6 of its 39 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The IP27 postcode district covers Lakenheath, Brandon East, Brandon Central, Forest, close to Abbey Heath, Thetford, Barton Mills, and surrounding villages in parts of Suffolk and Norfolk.

39 postcodes in the IP27 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 6 high, 4 medium, 27 low, 2 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 IP27 postcodes are at risk?

IP27 0EB up to High IP27 0PF up to High IP27 0PU up to High IP27 0PX up to High IP27 0TL up to High IP27 0TT up to High IP27 0AN up to Medium IP27 0BG up to Medium IP27 0TX up to Medium IP27 0UW up to Medium IP27 0AU up to Low IP27 0BL up to Low IP27 0EA up to Low IP27 0JD up to Low IP27 0SF up to Low IP27 0TF up to Low IP27 0UH up to Low IP27 9AA up to Low IP27 9AB up to Low IP27 9AD up to Low IP27 9AE up to Low IP27 9AS up to Low IP27 9BX up to Low IP27 9BY up to Low IP27 9DL up to Low IP27 9FA up to Low IP27 9HD up to Low IP27 9LB up to Low IP27 9LE up to Low IP27 9LF up to Low IP27 9LG up to Low IP27 9LH up to Low IP27 9LJ up to Low IP27 9LN up to Low IP27 9LQ up to Low IP27 9LR up to Low IP27 9PN up to Low IP27 0SD up to Very low IP27 9FW up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near IP27

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

1 official flood warning or alert has been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (1 at warning level or above), most recently 26 December 2020. 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

IP26 IP28 IP25 IP29 IP24 IP30 IP23 IP31

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.