Does ME9 flood?

Yes — parts of the ME9 district carry real flood risk: 18 of its 52 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The ME9 postcode district covers Teynham and Lynsted, Bobbing, Iwade and Lower Halstow, Hartlip, Newington and Upchurch, close to Sheerness, and surrounding villages in Kent.

52 postcodes in the ME9 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 18 high, 10 medium, 14 low, 10 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 ME9 postcodes are at risk?

ME9 7AB up to High ME9 7DY up to High ME9 7EA up to High ME9 7HA up to High ME9 7HE up to High ME9 7HJ up to High ME9 7HN up to High ME9 7PN up to High ME9 8RN up to High ME9 8SN up to High ME9 9BY up to High ME9 9HA up to High ME9 9HH up to High ME9 9HJ up to High ME9 9HL up to High ME9 9HN up to High ME9 9HQ up to High ME9 9HR up to High ME9 7DP up to Medium ME9 7EB up to Medium ME9 7EJ up to Medium ME9 7HL up to Medium ME9 8FQ up to Medium ME9 8RP up to Medium ME9 8RR up to Medium ME9 8RX up to Medium ME9 8SR up to Medium ME9 9BP up to Medium ME9 7DX up to Low ME9 7EG up to Low ME9 7EL up to Low ME9 7ES up to Low ME9 7EY up to Low ME9 7HB up to Low ME9 7HG up to Low ME9 8FN up to Low ME9 8SS up to Low ME9 9AS up to Low ME9 9BU up to Low ME9 9BX up to Low ME9 9EA up to Low ME9 9SN up to Low ME9 8SP up to Very low ME9 9AP up to Very low ME9 9AR up to Very low ME9 9AW up to Very low ME9 9ES up to Very low ME9 9EU up to Very low ME9 9EX up to Very low ME9 9EZ up to Very low ME9 9HX up to Very low ME9 9LS up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near ME9

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

180 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):

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

ME10 ME8 ME11 ME7 ME12 ME6 ME13 ME14

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.