Does RG40 flood?

Yes — parts of the RG40 district carry real flood risk: 14 of its 27 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The RG40 postcode district covers Barkham & Arborfield, Norreys, Wescott, close to Wokingham, Sindlesham, Eversley, and surrounding villages in parts of Wokingham and Hampshire.

27 postcodes in the RG40 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 14 high, 7 medium, 6 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 RG40 postcodes are at risk?

RG40 2AS up to High RG40 2DY up to High RG40 2NS up to High RG40 3BF up to High RG40 3BU up to High RG40 4QS up to High RG40 4RP up to High RG40 5AY up to High RG40 5QE up to High RG40 5RN up to High RG40 5SJ up to High RG40 5SN up to High RG40 5SQ up to High RG40 5SR up to High RG40 2NX up to Medium RG40 3DY up to Medium RG40 3LS up to Medium RG40 4PJ up to Medium RG40 4RA up to Medium RG40 5AU up to Medium RG40 5BA up to Medium RG40 3GL up to Low RG40 3LZ up to Low RG40 3QS up to Low RG40 4QT up to Low RG40 4RD up to Low RG40 5RY up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near RG40

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

320 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (20 at warning level or above), most recently 15 February 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

RG41 RG42 RG45 RG31 RG30 RG29 RG28 RG27

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.