Does RG5 flood?

Yes — parts of the RG5 district carry real flood risk: 9 of its 11 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The RG5 postcode district covers Loddon, close to Sindlesham, Sonning, Charvil, and surrounding villages in parts of Wokingham and Reading.

11 postcodes in the RG5 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 9 high, 2 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 RG5 postcodes are at risk?

RG5 4AS up to High RG5 4AT up to High RG5 4DL up to High RG5 4DR up to High RG5 4DT up to High RG5 4DY up to High RG5 4FB up to High RG5 4TB up to High RG5 4WP up to High RG5 4BZ up to Low RG5 4DN up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near RG5

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

Twyford on the River Loddon — 4.2 km away, highest on record 3.43m
Reading on the River Thames — 5.8 km away, highest on record 7.54m
Arborfield Bridge on the River Loddon — 5.8 km away, highest on record 1.39m
Wokingham on the Emm Brook — 6 km away, highest on record 2.33m

420 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (69 at warning level or above), most recently 28 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Winter 2013/2014 (2013) — about 8.1 km from the centre
9th Feb 2009 Loddon Bridge (2009) — about 1.2 km from the centre
Thames SE area July 2007 (2007) — about 2.1 km from the centre

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

RG4 RG6 RG7 RG2 RG8 RG1 RG9 RG10

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.