Does NR28 flood?

Yes — parts of the NR28 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 16 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NR28 postcode district covers Bacton, Trunch, North Walsham West, North Walsham East, close to Neatishead, Ingworth, Hickling Heath, and surrounding villages in Norfolk.

16 postcodes in the NR28 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 2 medium, 7 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 NR28 postcodes are at risk?

NR28 0AW up to High NR28 0LA up to High NR28 0QP up to High NR28 0JY up to Medium NR28 0SX up to Medium NR28 0RQ up to Low NR28 0SW up to Low NR28 9BF up to Low NR28 9NG up to Low NR28 9PU up to Low NR28 9TU up to Low NR28 9TY up to Low NR28 9AH up to Very low NR28 9NR up to Very low NR28 9NS up to Very low NR28 9PL up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near NR28

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

Wayford Bridge on the River Ant — 7.1 km away, highest on record 0.91m
Barton Broad on the River Ant — 10.6 km away, highest on record 0.86m
Ingworth on the River Bure — 11.2 km away, highest on record 1.24m
Hickling Broad on the River Thurne — 13.3 km away, highest on record 0.90m

83 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (21 at warning level or above), most recently 19 December 2024. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

2013 Flood Outline (2013) — about 56.8 km from the centre
1993 Fluival Flood Outline (1993) — about 25.9 km from the centre
1953 Coast Flood Outline Norfolk (1953) — about 28.8 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

NR27 NR29 NR30 NR25 NR31 NR24 NR32 NR23

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.