Does IP30 flood?

Yes — parts of the IP30 district carry real flood risk: 14 of its 34 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The IP30 postcode district covers Rattlesden, Horringer, Thurston, Elmswell & Woolpit, close to Sicklesmere, Cockfield, Fornham St Martin, and surrounding villages in Suffolk.

34 postcodes in the IP30 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 14 high, 6 medium, 14 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 IP30 postcodes are at risk?

IP30 0BU up to High IP30 0DU up to High IP30 0QA up to High IP30 0RF up to High IP30 0SF up to High IP30 0TJ up to High IP30 0UL up to High IP30 0UN up to High IP30 9AQ up to High IP30 9NN up to High IP30 9PQ up to High IP30 9QR up to High IP30 9SQ up to High IP30 9SR up to High IP30 0PR up to Medium IP30 0RA up to Medium IP30 0RQ up to Medium IP30 0SA up to Medium IP30 9AG up to Medium IP30 9AJ up to Medium IP30 0BS up to Low IP30 0BT up to Low IP30 0HU up to Low IP30 0JA up to Low IP30 0RD up to Low IP30 0RG up to Low IP30 0RJ up to Low IP30 0RT up to Low IP30 0RW up to Low IP30 0SB up to Low IP30 0TH up to Low IP30 9AD up to Low IP30 9AE up to Low IP30 9BG up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near IP30

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

23 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (19 at warning level or above), most recently 29 February 2024. 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

IP29 IP31 IP28 IP32 IP27 IP33 IP26 IP25

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.