Does OX27 flood?

Yes — parts of the OX27 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 9 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The OX27 postcode district covers Fringford and Heyfords, Deddington, close to Launton, Wendlebury, Lower Arncott, and surrounding villages in parts of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

9 postcodes in the OX27 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 1 medium, 5 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 OX27 postcodes are at risk?

OX27 7NZ up to High OX27 8EE up to High OX27 8HD up to High OX27 9BY up to Medium OX27 0AQ up to Low OX27 7LE up to Low OX27 7NX up to Low OX27 8RS up to Low OX27 9AN up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near OX27

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

Langford Village on the Langford Brook — 5.6 km away, highest on record 1.85m
Wendlebury on the Wendlebury Brook — 8.2 km away, highest on record 1.97m
Lower Arncott on the River Ray — 9.6 km away, highest on record 2.98m
Brackley on the River Great Ouse — 9.7 km away, highest on record 2.95m

83 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 16 January 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

OX26 OX28 OX25 OX29 OX33 OX20 OX18 OX17

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.