Does OX29 5AZ flood?

Up to High likelihood

Properties in OX29 5AZ sit in the Environment Agency's High flood-likelihood band (worst property). The band is the worst found in the postcode — it describes the land around properties (defence-adjusted, rivers & sea), not any single address, and not today's conditions.

Likelihood bandAnnual chancePropertiesOf which homes
Highgreater than 3.3%33
Medium1% – 3.3%00
Low0.1% – 1%11
Very lowbelow 0.1%00

Over a 25-year mortgage, a property in a high-likelihood area has at least a 57% chance of flooding at least once.

How much rain falls on OX29 5AZ

OX29 5AZ gets about 667 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 71 mm; driest March, 42 mm). That is 43% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year.

A thirty-year average for the surrounding area, not a measurement at this address and not a flood risk on its own: a dry area floods when a storm sits over it, and a wet one may drain away perfectly well. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.7 km away. Average rainfall: HadUK-Grid v1.3.2, Met Office. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

The ground around OX29 5AZ

The ground here sits at about 64 m above sea level and falls 3 m across the surrounding 800 m. Surface water reaching this point runs off ground lying to the west-south-west, 1.0 m higher.

Shaded relief map of the ground around OX295AZ, computed from Environment Agency LiDAR. The ground here sits at about 64 m above sea level and falls 3 m across the surrounding 800 m. Surface water reaching this point runs off ground lying to the west-south-west, 1.0 m higher.
Shaded relief of the bare ground within about 400 m of OX29 5AZ, computed from the Environment Agency's published LiDAR terrain survey. The ring marks the postcode centre, not a property. This shows the shape of the land, not a flood map — it does not include drains, culverts, walls or kerbs, and the official likelihood band above is the authoritative figure. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved.

The watercourse nearest OX29 5AZ

Two mapped watercourses are about the same distance from the centre of OX29 5AZ: Newbridge Cut (about 360 m) and an unnamed stream (about 380 m), so this page cannot say which one is nearer to you.

Distances along the river are from the point on each watercourse nearest the centre of OX29 5AZ. From Ordnance Survey’s river map (OS Open Rivers), which leaves out small streams, ditches and culverts, so a nearer one may exist. This describes where water goes on the map; it says nothing about flooding at any address. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

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Inside the full report for OX29 5AZ

FloodRadarProperty Flood-Risk Report
OX29 5AZ
Elevated flood risk — professional assessment recommended

Because properties in the high likelihood band; 1 recorded flood outline mapped nearby; 234 official warnings since 2006.

E Today — indicative grade (A best → E)
··· By the 2050s — EA climate scenario (in the full report)
⚑ Official warning within 10 km: Yes ⚑ Recorded flood outline within ~1 km: Yes ⚑ Flood defence mapped within 500 m: Yes ⚑ In flood zone 2 or 3: ···
Rivers & sea
Up to High
Surface water
···
Groundwater
Not assessed
Historic flooding
Recorded nearby
Warning history · flood map with building picker · 2050s view · insurance outlook · every dataset receipt — 18 sections

Flood-risk map of this area

Environment Agency flood-likelihood cells
High (>3.3%/yr) Medium Low Very low Marker = postcode centre Base map © OpenStreetMap contributors

The map above shows the real EA rivers & sea likelihood cells around OX29 5AZ. The small panels are illustrative previews of the report's per-layer map views — the full report draws each layer for real, plus recorded extents, defences and a building picker on an interactive map.

Official flood warnings near OX29 5AZ

234
flood alerts & warnings within 10 km since 2008
47
of them full flood warnings or severe warnings
2026
most recent warning nearby (2026-03-13)

Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood outlines near this postcode

DateMapped flood extentApprox. distance
Jul 2007 Standlake CP_Fluvial Water ~0.7 km

These are extents the Environment Agency has mapped, not a list of every flood. Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded. The full report tests whether any extent covered the exact spot.

The rivers that matter for OX29 5AZ

GaugeRiverDistanceTypical highHighest on record
Newbridge GS River Windrush 1.0 km 3.77 m 4.35 m
Farmoor River Thames 4.9 km 1.30 m 2.01 m
Charney Bassett River Ock 8.8 km 1.80 m 2.72 m
Minns Estate Seacourt Stream 8.9 km 2.13 m 3.12 m

Live levels, predictions and rain-response behaviour are on each gauge's page and in the property report.

Storm overflows within 5 km

OverflowDischarges intoDistanceSpillsHours
Standlake Windrush 0.7 km 180 (2024) 3,967
Stanton Harcourt Wwtw Harcourt Brook 3.5 km 123 (2024) 2,157
Appleton Wastewater Treatment Works Marcham Brook 4.0 km 160 (2024) 2,622

Official annual EDM figures — a water-quality signal for local watercourses, not a property flood-risk factor.

Flood defences

12 mapped flood-defence assets within 500 m — nearest ~126 m (natural high ground). Defences reduce risk, never remove it.

What the full property report adds

The interactive flood-risk map with a building picker (your exact house, not the postcode), the 2050s climate view, surface-water and planning flood zones at your building, exact recorded-flood distances, year-by-year warning charts, watercourses including culverted streams, an insurance outlook with the Flood Re rules, and a printable document with every dataset receipt — start with the free preview, unlock for £19.

Flood risk at nearby postcodes

At-risk postcodes near OX29 5AZ — all in the OX29 district.

© 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. Recorded Flood Outlines and warning history © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. Storm-overflow figures: EA Event Duration Monitoring (England); live overflow status © the water companies, incl. Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water and Scottish Water. Flood defences © Environment Agency (OGL v3). This page summarises public area-level data — it is not a flood-risk survey and not a substitute for the official GOV.UK service. All data sources & licences. More postcodes: the OX29 district.