Does ME17 flood?

Yes — parts of the ME17 district carry real flood risk: 11 of its 27 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The ME17 postcode district covers Harrietsham, Lenham & North Downs, Boughton Monchelsea & Chart Sutton, Leeds & Langley, Headcorn & Sutton Valence, close to Linton, Maidstone, East Farleigh, and surrounding villages in Kent.

27 postcodes in the ME17 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 11 high, 6 medium, 10 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 ME17 postcodes are at risk?

ME17 1AD up to High ME17 1DB up to High ME17 1HU up to High ME17 1LQ up to High ME17 1TS up to High ME17 3EN up to High ME17 3HA up to High ME17 3LZ up to High ME17 4AU up to High ME17 4BA up to High ME17 4LY up to High ME17 1DD up to Medium ME17 1HX up to Medium ME17 1RR up to Medium ME17 1TJ up to Medium ME17 3ES up to Medium ME17 4DE up to Medium ME17 1JS up to Low ME17 1LG up to Low ME17 1LJ up to Low ME17 1RN up to Low ME17 1TT up to Low ME17 3EL up to Low ME17 3EZ up to Low ME17 3SP up to Low ME17 4GW up to Low ME17 4NF up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near ME17

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

42 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 5 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

ME16 ME18 ME15 ME19 ME14 ME20 ME13 ME12

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.