Does RG20 flood?

Yes — parts of the RG20 district carry real flood risk: 30 of its 57 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The RG20 postcode district covers Ridgeway, Hungerford & Kintbury, Evingar, close to Shaw, Bagnor, Newbury, and surrounding villages in parts of West Berkshire and Hampshire.

57 postcodes in the RG20 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 30 high, 10 medium, 17 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 RG20 postcodes are at risk?

RG20 0EX up to High RG20 0JE up to High RG20 0JH up to High RG20 0LS up to High RG20 0NF up to High RG20 0NW up to High RG20 0PL up to High RG20 4HS up to High RG20 4UD up to High RG20 4UQ up to High RG20 5SJ up to High RG20 6NG up to High RG20 6NH up to High RG20 6NL up to High RG20 6PJ up to High RG20 6PT up to High RG20 6QP up to High RG20 6QR up to High RG20 6QT up to High RG20 6RQ up to High RG20 7PD up to High RG20 7PE up to High RG20 7PF up to High RG20 8AS up to High RG20 8BT up to High RG20 8DP up to High RG20 8JB up to High RG20 8NH up to High RG20 9NF up to High RG20 9RG up to High RG20 5QA up to Medium RG20 6NJ up to Medium RG20 6PS up to Medium RG20 6RD up to Medium RG20 8AQ up to Medium RG20 8BU up to Medium RG20 8DA up to Medium RG20 8EE up to Medium RG20 8HS up to Medium RG20 9NL up to Medium RG20 0HA up to Low RG20 0LY up to Low RG20 0NA up to Low RG20 0ND up to Low RG20 4UR up to Low RG20 5PL up to Low RG20 5PW up to Low RG20 6NQ up to Low RG20 6PU up to Low RG20 6QS up to Low RG20 6QU up to Low RG20 7RH up to Low RG20 8HR up to Low RG20 8LX up to Low RG20 8TY up to Low RG20 9QW up to Low RG20 9SD up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near RG20

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

89 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (24 at warning level or above), most recently 5 April 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

RG19 RG21 RG18 RG22 RG17 RG24 RG25 RG14

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.