Does ME8 flood?

Yes — parts of the ME8 district carry real flood risk: 6 of its 13 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The ME8 postcode district covers Rainham North, Hartlip, Newington and Upchurch, close to Sheerness, Sandling, Maidstone, and surrounding villages in Kent.

13 postcodes in the ME8 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 6 high, 1 medium, 6 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 ME8 postcodes are at risk?

ME8 7TW up to High ME8 7UB up to High ME8 7UX up to High ME8 7XB up to High ME8 7XE up to High ME8 7XF up to High ME8 8LL up to Medium ME8 7FP up to Low ME8 7TL up to Low ME8 7TY up to Low ME8 7TZ up to Low ME8 7UA up to Low ME8 7UY up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near ME8

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

Riddles Lane on the Groundwater Level — 8.1 km away, highest on record 25.93m
Allington Marina on the River Medway — 12.1 km away, highest on record 1.08m
EAST FARLEIGH GS — 16.1 km away
East Farleigh Gate Upstream on the River Medway — 16.4 km away, highest on record 5.38m

95 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 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

07307C100_JAN1978_MedwayTidalEstuary_Upchurch_Hors (1978) — about 1.8 km from the centre
07301B100_FEB1953_Burntwick Island (1953) — about 5.5 km from the centre
07301B100_FEB1953_Nor Marsh (1953) — about 3.1 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 ME9 ME10 ME6 ME11 ME12 ME4 ME13

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.