Does IP8 flood?

Yes — parts of the IP8 district carry real flood risk: 13 of its 41 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The IP8 postcode district covers Bramford, Sproughton & Pinewood, Blakenham, Copdock & Washbrook, close to Hadleigh, Creeting St Mary, Combs Ford, and surrounding villages in Suffolk.

41 postcodes in the IP8 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 13 high, 6 medium, 17 low, 5 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 IP8 postcodes are at risk?

IP8 3AA up to High IP8 3AB up to High IP8 3AD up to High IP8 3BG up to High IP8 3LJ up to High IP8 3NJ up to High IP8 4BF up to High IP8 4BP up to High IP8 4NF up to High IP8 4PD up to High IP8 4QL up to High IP8 4QN up to High IP8 4RB up to High IP8 3LG up to Medium IP8 4AR up to Medium IP8 4AT up to Medium IP8 4DE up to Medium IP8 4NN up to Medium IP8 4PB up to Medium IP8 3AZ up to Low IP8 3BQ up to Low IP8 3HR up to Low IP8 3HS up to Low IP8 3LA up to Low IP8 3NX up to Low IP8 4AP up to Low IP8 4AS up to Low IP8 4AU up to Low IP8 4BU up to Low IP8 4DD up to Low IP8 4JT up to Low IP8 4PH up to Low IP8 4QA up to Low IP8 4QG up to Low IP8 4SE up to Low IP8 4SF up to Low IP8 3AY up to Very low IP8 3BE up to Very low IP8 4EQ up to Very low IP8 4FD up to Very low IP8 4JS up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near IP8

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

84 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (28 at warning level or above), most recently 28 January 2026. 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

IP7 IP9 IP10 IP6 IP11 IP12 IP4 IP13

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.