Does PE3 flood?

Parts of the PE3 district carry moderate flood risk: 2 of its 16 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's Medium likelihood band. The PE3 postcode district covers Fletton and Woodston, Bretton, close to Peterborough, Whittlesey, Wansford, and surrounding villages in parts of Lincolnshire and City of Peterborough.

16 postcodes in the PE3 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 medium, 10 low, 4 very 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 PE3 postcodes are at risk?

PE3 6GA up to Medium PE3 6GQ up to Medium PE3 6AH up to Low PE3 6BX up to Low PE3 6BY up to Low PE3 6BZ up to Low PE3 6GE up to Low PE3 6HL up to Low PE3 6HR up to Low PE3 6JQ up to Low PE3 6LN up to Low PE3 8YD up to Low PE3 6BL up to Very low PE3 6BN up to Very low PE3 6JH up to Very low PE3 6SB up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near PE3

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

Little Bridge on the River Nene — 9.4 km away, highest on record 2.80m
Wansford on the River Nene — 9.7 km away, highest on record 2.94m
Deeping St James on the River Welland — 10.4 km away, highest on record 1.86m
Market Deeping on the River Welland — 11.3 km away, highest on record 0.66m

189 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (186 at warning level or above), most recently 8 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

LNA_1998_April_River Welland (1998) — about 24.4 km from the centre
LNA_1998_April_River Nene_d/s Northampton (1998) — about 30.9 km from the centre
LNA_1947_March_River Nene_d/s Northampton (1947) — about 2.4 km from the centre
LNA_1947_March_River Welland_Crowland (1947) — about 14.6 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

PE2 PE4 PE1 PE5 PE6 PE7 PE8 PE9

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.