Does RG42 flood?

Yes — parts of the RG42 district carry real flood risk: 19 of its 63 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The RG42 postcode district covers Priestwood & Garth, Whitegrove, Winkfield & Warfield East, close to Warfield, Binfield, Wokingham, and surrounding villages in parts of Windsor and Maidenhead and Buckinghamshire.

63 postcodes in the RG42 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 19 high, 8 medium, 36 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 RG42 postcodes are at risk?

RG42 1PD up to High RG42 1SZ up to High RG42 1TL up to High RG42 1UA up to High RG42 1XH up to High RG42 4LY up to High RG42 5NP up to High RG42 5QS up to High RG42 5QU up to High RG42 5QX up to High RG42 6AE up to High RG42 6AJ up to High RG42 6BP up to High RG42 6DY up to High RG42 6ED up to High RG42 6EE up to High RG42 6JQ up to High RG42 6LS up to High RG42 6NA up to High RG42 1UR up to Medium RG42 2ES up to Medium RG42 2HT up to Medium RG42 4NL up to Medium RG42 5QN up to Medium RG42 5QP up to Medium RG42 6EZ up to Medium RG42 6FD up to Medium RG42 1TB up to Low RG42 1UJ up to Low RG42 1UT up to Low RG42 1UX up to Low RG42 1XG up to Low RG42 2AQ up to Low RG42 2ET up to Low RG42 2EX up to Low RG42 2PN up to Low RG42 3DP up to Low RG42 3DY up to Low RG42 3EF up to Low RG42 3EQ up to Low RG42 3EW up to Low RG42 3EZ up to Low RG42 3JL up to Low RG42 3JP up to Low RG42 3XA up to Low RG42 3XB up to Low RG42 3XY up to Low RG42 4JW up to Low RG42 4NB up to Low RG42 4SS up to Low RG42 4UR up to Low RG42 4UW up to Low RG42 5QR up to Low RG42 5QZ up to Low RG42 5RT up to Low RG42 6BH up to Low RG42 6BW up to Low RG42 6DJ up to Low RG42 6DL up to Low RG42 6DN up to Low RG42 6FA up to Low RG42 6FB up to Low RG42 6FH up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near RG42

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

207 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (8 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 RG40 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.