Does ME6 flood?

Yes — parts of the ME6 district carry real flood risk: 7 of its 13 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The ME6 postcode district covers Snodland East & Ham Hill, Birling, Leybourne & Ryarsh, close to Sandling, Maidstone, West Farleigh, and surrounding villages in Kent.

13 postcodes in the ME6 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 7 high, 2 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 ME6 postcodes are at risk?

ME6 5BB up to High ME6 5GP up to High ME6 5JX up to High ME6 5JY up to High ME6 5LX up to High ME6 5ST up to High ME6 5UD up to High ME6 5FB up to Low ME6 5LG up to Low ME6 5AT up to Very low ME6 5AX up to Very low ME6 5BA up to Very low ME6 5SL up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near ME6

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

Allington Marina on the River Medway — 6.1 km away, highest on record 1.08m
EAST FARLEIGH GS — 8.3 km away
Teston on the River Medway — 8.3 km away, highest on record 3.90m
East Farleigh Gate Upstream on the River Medway — 8.4 km away, highest on record 5.38m

110 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (15 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):

07302C200_Dec2013_Medway_Eden_Teise_Beult (2013) — about 15.5 km from the centre
07302C200_OCT2000_Medway Tidal (2000) — about 2.1 km from the centre
07301C110_SEPT1968_Snodland Millstream_Leybourne (1968) — about 2.9 km from the centre
07301C100_DEC1965_Medway_Aylesford (1965) — about 3.2 km from the centre

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

ME7 ME4 ME8 ME3 ME9 ME10 ME2 ME1

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.