Does PE4 flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in PE4: none of its 2 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The PE4 postcode district covers Paston and Walton, close to Peterborough, Deeping St James, Deeping Gate, and surrounding villages in parts of Lincolnshire and City of Peterborough.

2 postcodes in the PE4 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 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 PE4 postcodes are at risk?

PE4 6SG up to Low PE4 7BB up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near PE4

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

Deeping St James on the River Welland — 6.9 km away, highest on record 1.86m
Market Deeping on the River Welland — 8.1 km away, highest on record 0.66m
Little Bridge on the River Nene — 9.5 km away, highest on record 2.80m
Tallington on the River Welland — 10.6 km away, highest on record 2.05m

193 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (190 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 25.4 km from the centre
LNA_1998_April_River Nene_d/s Northampton (1998) — about 34.2 km from the centre
LNA_1947_March_River Welland_Crowland (1947) — about 10.9 km from the centre
LNA_1947_March_River Nene_d/s Northampton (1947) — about 34 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

PE3 PE5 PE2 PE6 PE1 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.