Does NW11 flood?

Yes — parts of the NW11 district carry real flood risk: 23 of its 46 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NW11 postcode district covers Childs Hill, Golders Green, Garden Suburb, Hendon, close to Finchley, Totteridge, Willesden, and surrounding villages in parts of Greater London and Hertfordshire.

46 postcodes in the NW11 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 23 high, 4 medium, 19 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 NW11 postcodes are at risk?

NW11 0JN up to High NW11 0JP up to High NW11 0JR up to High NW11 0RH up to High NW11 0RN up to High NW11 0RP up to High NW11 0RR up to High NW11 0RT up to High NW11 0RY up to High NW11 6JD up to High NW11 7BX up to High NW11 7DB up to High NW11 7DD up to High NW11 7NH up to High NW11 7NN up to High NW11 7PE up to High NW11 8AU up to High NW11 8BS up to High NW11 8BU up to High NW11 9JU up to High NW11 9JY up to High NW11 9LJ up to High NW11 9LS up to High NW11 8BH up to Medium NW11 9LG up to Medium NW11 9LH up to Medium NW11 9NE up to Medium NW11 6BJ up to Low NW11 6DH up to Low NW11 6DJ up to Low NW11 6LG up to Low NW11 6NE up to Low NW11 6RJ up to Low NW11 7DE up to Low NW11 7ES up to Low NW11 7EU up to Low NW11 7EX up to Low NW11 7HB up to Low NW11 7LG up to Low NW11 7NP up to Low NW11 7NR up to Low NW11 8BT up to Low NW11 9AB up to Low NW11 9NG up to Low NW11 9PU up to Low NW11 9PX up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NW11

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

124 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (11 at warning level or above), most recently 28 August 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.