Does PO36 flood?

Yes — parts of the PO36 district carry real flood risk: 12 of its 30 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The PO36 postcode district covers Brading & St Helens, Newchurch, Havenstreet & Ashey, close to Sandown, Alverstone, St Helens, and surrounding villages in Isle of Wight.

30 postcodes in the PO36 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 12 high, 5 medium, 6 low, 7 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 PO36 postcodes are at risk?

PO36 0BL up to High PO36 0EL up to High PO36 0EZ up to High PO36 0HB up to High PO36 0NP up to High PO36 8AS up to High PO36 8BD up to High PO36 8JT up to High PO36 8QJ up to High PO36 9AL up to High PO36 9AX up to High PO36 9PF up to High PO36 8AT up to Medium PO36 8QA up to Medium PO36 8QB up to Medium PO36 8QF up to Medium PO36 9AZ up to Medium PO36 0BD up to Low PO36 0BJ up to Low PO36 0QA up to Low PO36 8EU up to Low PO36 9DS up to Low PO36 9PS up to Low PO36 8BB up to Very low PO36 8BE up to Very low PO36 8EB up to Very low PO36 8ED up to Very low PO36 8EH up to Very low PO36 8FE up to Very low PO36 9AS up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near PO36

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

402 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (102 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):

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

PO35 PO37 PO34 PO38 PO33 PO32 PO40 PO31

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.