Does ME16 flood?

Yes — parts of the ME16 district carry real flood risk: 19 of its 49 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The ME16 postcode district covers Fant & Oakwood, Allington & Bridge, Barming Heath & Teston, Palace Wood, close to Maidstone, Sandling, East Farleigh, and surrounding villages in Kent.

49 postcodes in the ME16 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 19 high, 10 medium, 16 low, 4 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 ME16 postcodes are at risk?

ME16 0BP up to High ME16 0GB up to High ME16 0LU up to High ME16 0NB up to High ME16 0ND up to High ME16 0NH up to High ME16 0PU up to High ME16 0SN up to High ME16 0ST up to High ME16 8FD up to High ME16 8FT up to High ME16 8GB up to High ME16 8GD up to High ME16 8LW up to High ME16 8PB up to High ME16 8RG up to High ME16 8SF up to High ME16 9NB up to High ME16 9ND up to High ME16 0SX up to Medium ME16 8EF up to Medium ME16 8EQ up to Medium ME16 8EW up to Medium ME16 8FE up to Medium ME16 8QX up to Medium ME16 8RA up to Medium ME16 8RB up to Medium ME16 8RD up to Medium ME16 8RQ up to Medium ME16 0GQ up to Low ME16 0GR up to Low ME16 0GT up to Low ME16 0GW up to Low ME16 0LT up to Low ME16 0SQ up to Low ME16 8DW up to Low ME16 8ET up to Low ME16 8FF up to Low ME16 8GF up to Low ME16 8LZ up to Low ME16 8NF up to Low ME16 8PS up to Low ME16 8QG up to Low ME16 8RF up to Low ME16 8RJ up to Low ME16 8FY up to Very low ME16 9HA up to Very low ME16 9LY up to Very low ME16 9NJ up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near ME16

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

130 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (31 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

ME15 ME17 ME14 ME18 ME13 ME19 ME12 ME20

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.