Does ME19 flood?

Yes — parts of the ME19 district carry real flood risk: 20 of its 38 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The ME19 postcode district covers East Malling, West Malling & Offham, Birling, Leybourne & Ryarsh, Pilgrims with Ightham, close to West Farleigh, Sandling, East Farleigh, and surrounding villages in Kent.

38 postcodes in the ME19 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 20 high, 10 medium, 8 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 ME19 postcodes are at risk?

ME19 5AS up to High ME19 5HD up to High ME19 5HF up to High ME19 5HH up to High ME19 5HT up to High ME19 5HW up to High ME19 5HY up to High ME19 5JS up to High ME19 5LS up to High ME19 6BF up to High ME19 6BU up to High ME19 6BZ up to High ME19 6DE up to High ME19 6DF up to High ME19 6DJ up to High ME19 6DZ up to High ME19 6FS up to High ME19 6LN up to High ME19 6LP up to High ME19 6TZ up to High ME19 5AA up to Medium ME19 5AN up to Medium ME19 5EZ up to Medium ME19 5HG up to Medium ME19 5QH up to Medium ME19 5RX up to Medium ME19 6DP up to Medium ME19 6NF up to Medium ME19 6RU up to Medium ME19 6RX up to Medium ME19 5HQ up to Low ME19 5JB up to Low ME19 6BX up to Low ME19 6DH up to Low ME19 6DN up to Low ME19 6DQ up to Low ME19 6GX up to Low ME19 6GY up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near ME19

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

183 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (30 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

ME18 ME20 ME17 ME16 ME15 ME14 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.