Does IP31 flood?

Yes — parts of the IP31 district carry real flood risk: 18 of its 46 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The IP31 postcode district covers Walsham-le-Willows, Thurston, Pakenham & Troston, Bardwell, close to Fornham St Martin, Knettishall, Rattlesden, and surrounding villages in parts of Suffolk and Norfolk.

46 postcodes in the IP31 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 18 high, 11 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 IP31 postcodes are at risk?

IP31 1JF up to High IP31 1SX up to High IP31 2JN up to High IP31 2JU up to High IP31 2LS up to High IP31 2LZ up to High IP31 3AD up to High IP31 3AZ up to High IP31 3BJ up to High IP31 3BQ up to High IP31 3DS up to High IP31 3EG up to High IP31 3FR up to High IP31 3HQ up to High IP31 3LB up to High IP31 3LF up to High IP31 3QJ up to High IP31 3RU up to High IP31 1RS up to Medium IP31 1SA up to Medium IP31 2AB up to Medium IP31 2BA up to Medium IP31 2HT up to Medium IP31 2NB up to Medium IP31 3BT up to Medium IP31 3EN up to Medium IP31 3JR up to Medium IP31 3JT up to Medium IP31 3LE up to Medium IP31 1AQ up to Low IP31 1RH up to Low IP31 1RR up to Low IP31 2AD up to Low IP31 2DZ up to Low IP31 2HB up to Low IP31 2HX up to Low IP31 2JS up to Low IP31 2LX up to Low IP31 2LY up to Low IP31 2NE up to Low IP31 2PR up to Low IP31 3BX up to Low IP31 3EJ up to Low IP31 3JX up to Low IP31 3LX up to Low IP31 3RG up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near IP31

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

IP30 IP32 IP29 IP33 IP28 IP27 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.