Does OX33 flood?

Yes — parts of the OX33 district carry real flood risk: 7 of its 25 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The OX33 postcode district covers Wheatley, Forest Hill & Holton, Launton and Otmoor, Haseley Brook, close to Oxford, Kennington, Sandford-on-Thames, and surrounding villages in parts of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

25 postcodes in the OX33 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 7 high, 6 medium, 12 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 OX33 postcodes are at risk?

OX33 1BG up to High OX33 1NQ up to High OX33 1PP up to High OX33 1PR up to High OX33 1UH up to High OX33 1XP up to High OX33 1XY up to High OX33 1DW up to Medium OX33 1HL up to Medium OX33 1NJ up to Medium OX33 1UE up to Medium OX33 1XT up to Medium OX33 1XX up to Medium OX33 1AR up to Low OX33 1ET up to Low OX33 1JH up to Low OX33 1JL up to Low OX33 1JX up to Low OX33 1NW up to Low OX33 1ST up to Low OX33 1UF up to Low OX33 1XJ up to Low OX33 1YD up to Low OX33 1YG up to Low OX33 1YQ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near OX33

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

116 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (45 at warning level or above), most recently 4 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

OX29 OX28 OX27 OX39 OX26 OX25 OX44 OX20

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.