Does PL4 flood?

Yes — parts of the PL4 district carry real flood risk: 9 of its 63 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The PL4 postcode district covers St Peter and the Waterfront, Sutton and Mount Gould, Efford and Lipson, close to Devonport, Plympton, Bickleigh, and surrounding villages in parts of Devon and England.

63 postcodes in the PL4 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 9 high, 5 medium, 12 low, 37 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 PL4 postcodes are at risk?

PL4 0BX up to High PL4 0DW up to High PL4 0EZ up to High PL4 0LH up to High PL4 0PX up to High PL4 0RF up to High PL4 0RJ up to High PL4 0RW up to High PL4 9JH up to High PL4 0FB up to Medium PL4 0LB up to Medium PL4 0SR up to Medium PL4 9JN up to Medium PL4 9JW up to Medium PL4 0LU up to Low PL4 0RP up to Low PL4 0SN up to Low PL4 9HJ up to Low PL4 9JZ up to Low PL4 9LA up to Low PL4 9LB up to Low PL4 9LD up to Low PL4 9LE up to Low PL4 9LF up to Low PL4 9LG up to Low PL4 9PU up to Low PL4 0AD up to Very low PL4 0AU up to Very low PL4 0BB up to Very low PL4 0BD up to Very low PL4 0BJ up to Very low PL4 0BL up to Very low PL4 0BN up to Very low PL4 0BS up to Very low PL4 0BU up to Very low PL4 0DD up to Very low PL4 0DE up to Very low PL4 0DF up to Very low PL4 0DH up to Very low PL4 0DJ up to Very low PL4 0DN up to Very low PL4 0DT up to Very low PL4 0DU up to Very low PL4 0EF up to Very low PL4 0EL up to Very low PL4 0EP up to Very low PL4 0ER up to Very low PL4 0ET up to Very low PL4 0EU up to Very low PL4 0EX up to Very low PL4 0EY up to Very low PL4 0GG up to Very low PL4 0HB up to Very low PL4 0HN up to Very low PL4 0HP up to Very low PL4 0HX up to Very low PL4 0LF up to Very low PL4 0LY up to Very low PL4 0QT up to Very low PL4 0QX up to Very low PL4 0RA up to Very low PL4 0RB up to Very low PL4 0SJ up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near PL4

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

256 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (71 at warning level or above), most recently 18 February 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

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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.