Does NN13 flood?

Yes — parts of the NN13 district carry real flood risk: 8 of its 18 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NN13 postcode district covers Buckingham, Brackley, Rural South Northamptonshire, Middleton Cheney, close to Towcester, Cappenham, and surrounding villages in parts of West Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire.

18 postcodes in the NN13 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 8 high, 3 medium, 7 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 NN13 postcodes are at risk?

NN13 5HS up to High NN13 5NA up to High NN13 5QU up to High NN13 5TD up to High NN13 5TR up to High NN13 7EX up to High NN13 7EZ up to High NN13 7RP up to High NN13 5HU up to Medium NN13 5JH up to Medium NN13 5TX up to Medium NN13 5LP up to Low NN13 5PR up to Low NN13 5PW up to Low NN13 5RL up to Low NN13 5RX up to Low NN13 7AL up to Low NN13 7XU up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NN13

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

Brackley on the River Great Ouse — 0.5 km away, highest on record 2.95m
Buckingham on the River Great Ouse — 9.9 km away, highest on record 2.16m
Thornborough on the River Great Ouse — 13.5 km away, highest on record 1.24m
Towcester on the River Tove — 14.4 km away, highest on record 1.60m

14 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (14 at warning level or above), most recently 24 November 2024. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

July 2007 (2007) — about 1 km from the centre
Easter 1998 (1998) — about 1.2 km from the centre
M_LS_Jan_1985 (1985) — about 49.5 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

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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.