Does NN12 flood?

Yes — parts of the NN12 district carry real flood risk: 15 of its 39 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NN12 postcode district covers Towcester, Rural South Northamptonshire, Deanshanger & Paulerspury, Hackleton & Roade, close to Cappenham, Bugbrooke, Rothersthorpe, and surrounding villages in parts of West Northamptonshire and City of Milton Keynes.

39 postcodes in the NN12 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 15 high, 3 medium, 18 low, 3 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 NN12 postcodes are at risk?

NN12 6LF up to High NN12 6YY up to High NN12 7JS up to High NN12 7NJ up to High NN12 7SL up to High NN12 7SW up to High NN12 7XU up to High NN12 8AB up to High NN12 8AD up to High NN12 8AP up to High NN12 8BS up to High NN12 8HP up to High NN12 8PH up to High NN12 8UB up to High NN12 8UP up to High NN12 7SP up to Medium NN12 8AH up to Medium NN12 8UH up to Medium NN12 6AH up to Low NN12 6DB up to Low NN12 6DD up to Low NN12 6DE up to Low NN12 6HT up to Low NN12 6JF up to Low NN12 6LH up to Low NN12 6PF up to Low NN12 6UQ up to Low NN12 6UT up to Low NN12 6UX up to Low NN12 7PX up to Low NN12 7QD up to Low NN12 8AQ up to Low NN12 8AX up to Low NN12 8PE up to Low NN12 8QA up to Low NN12 8XA up to Low NN12 7AR up to Very low NN12 7HR up to Very low NN12 7HS up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near NN12

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

105 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 12 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

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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.