Does PO35 flood?

Yes — parts of the PO35 district carry real flood risk: 10 of its 14 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The PO35 postcode district covers Bembridge, close to St Helens, Sandown, Ryde, and surrounding villages in parts of Isle of Wight and England.

14 postcodes in the PO35 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 10 high, 2 medium, 1 low, 1 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 PO35 postcodes are at risk?

PO35 5NF up to High PO35 5NN up to High PO35 5NQ up to High PO35 5NR up to High PO35 5NS up to High PO35 5NZ up to High PO35 5PB up to High PO35 5TA up to High PO35 5TB up to High PO35 5TH up to High PO35 5NB up to Medium PO35 5NP up to Medium PO35 5AN up to Low PO35 5PS up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near PO35

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

Sandown on the Eastern Yar — 5.3 km away, highest on record 2.61m
St Johns on the Monktonmead Brook — 6 km away, highest on record 3.82m
Monkton Mead on the Monktonmead Brook — 6.2 km away, highest on record 2.75m
Burnt House on the Eastern Yar — 6.8 km away, highest on record 1.57m

316 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (31 at warning level or above), most recently 26 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Oct2000_Eastern Yar_General(7) (2000) — about 3.3 km from the centre
Oct2000_Eastern Yar_Aerial(11) (2000) — about 2.8 km from the centre
Oct2000_Eastern Yar_Aerial(12) (2000) — about 3 km from the centre
Oct2000_Eastern Yar_Brading (2000) — about 3.7 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

PO34 PO36 PO33 PO37 PO32 PO38 PO31 PO30

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.