Does PE36 flood?

Yes — parts of the PE36 district carry real flood risk: 17 of its 32 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The PE36 postcode district covers Hunstanton, Brancaster, Heacham and surrounding villages in Norfolk.

32 postcodes in the PE36 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 17 high, 3 medium, 7 low, 5 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 PE36 postcodes are at risk?

PE36 5AJ up to High PE36 5BA up to High PE36 5BD up to High PE36 5BF up to High PE36 5BQ up to High PE36 5LT up to High PE36 5NZ up to High PE36 6BL up to High PE36 6DU up to High PE36 6FH up to High PE36 6GB up to High PE36 6JE up to High PE36 6LG up to High PE36 6LH up to High PE36 6LQ up to High PE36 6LS up to High PE36 6NH up to High PE36 5AX up to Medium PE36 5BB up to Medium PE36 6LR up to Medium PE36 5BE up to Low PE36 5BH up to Low PE36 5NX up to Low PE36 6JG up to Low PE36 6LF up to Low PE36 6NJ up to Low PE36 6NU up to Low PE36 5AZ up to Very low PE36 5JF up to Very low PE36 5PA up to Very low PE36 5PB up to Very low PE36 5PE up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near PE36

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

150 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (16 at warning level or above), most recently 30 August 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

PE37 PE34 PE38 PE33 PE32 PE31 PE30 PE29

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.