Does OX39 flood?

Parts of the OX39 district carry moderate flood risk: 1 of its 4 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's Medium likelihood band. The OX39 postcode district covers Chinnor, close to Thame, Wye, Cuddington, and surrounding villages in parts of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.

4 postcodes in the OX39 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 medium, 3 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 OX39 postcodes are at risk?

OX39 4LA up to Medium OX39 4LD up to Low OX39 4LY up to Low OX39 4NF up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near OX39

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

Thame Bridge on the River Thame — 5.4 km away, highest on record 2.99m
Piddington on the Groundwater Level — 8.6 km away, highest on record 107.65m
Cuddington on the River Thame — 9.3 km away, highest on record 2.59m
Wheatley on the River Thame — 12.4 km away, highest on record 6.11m

150 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (6 at warning level or above), most recently 18 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Winter 2013/2014 (2013) — about 18.3 km from the centre
September 1992 flooding — about 3.4 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

OX44 OX33 OX29 OX49 OX28 OX27 OX26 OX25

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.