Does ME1 flood?

Yes — parts of the ME1 district carry real flood risk: 21 of its 51 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The ME1 postcode district covers Aylesford North & North Downs, Rochester West & Borstal, Fort Pitt, close to Sandling, Maidstone, Tilbury, and surrounding villages in parts of Kent and Essex.

51 postcodes in the ME1 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 21 high, 2 medium, 14 low, 14 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 ME1 postcodes are at risk?

ME1 1BU up to High ME1 1BY up to High ME1 1DA up to High ME1 1EB up to High ME1 1EE up to High ME1 1HH up to High ME1 1QN up to High ME1 1QW up to High ME1 1QX up to High ME1 1QY up to High ME1 1TH up to High ME1 3HS up to High ME1 3HU up to High ME1 3JN up to High ME1 3TJ up to High ME1 3TL up to High ME1 3TX up to High ME1 3UU up to High ME1 3XY up to High ME1 3YA up to High ME1 3YF up to High ME1 1QA up to Medium ME1 3UZ up to Medium ME1 1FF up to Low ME1 1JR up to Low ME1 1PW up to Low ME1 1RS up to Low ME1 3GF up to Low ME1 3GL up to Low ME1 3TN up to Low ME1 3TP up to Low ME1 3TT up to Low ME1 3TY up to Low ME1 3UF up to Low ME1 3UG up to Low ME1 3UX up to Low ME1 3YE up to Low ME1 1PB up to Very low ME1 1RY up to Very low ME1 1US up to Very low ME1 3FP up to Very low ME1 3FY up to Very low ME1 3GJ up to Very low ME1 3TD up to Very low ME1 3XD up to Very low ME1 3XJ up to Very low ME1 3XN up to Very low ME1 3XZ up to Very low ME1 3YP up to Very low ME1 3ZF up to Very low ME1 3ZJ up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near ME1

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

104 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (9 at warning level or above), most recently 3 February 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

ME2 ME3 ME4 ME6 ME7 ME8 ME9 ME10

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.