Does RH13 flood?

Yes — parts of the RH13 district carry real flood risk: 11 of its 23 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The RH13 postcode district covers Cowfold, Shermanbury & West Grinstead, Southwater South & Shipley, Itchingfield, Slinfold & Warnham, Nuthurst & Lower Beeding, close to Horsham, Tanbridge, Wineham, and surrounding villages in West Sussex.

23 postcodes in the RH13 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 11 high, 3 medium, 9 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 RH13 postcodes are at risk?

RH13 0QN up to High RH13 0QZ up to High RH13 6LH up to High RH13 6PF up to High RH13 6QY up to High RH13 8AZ up to High RH13 8BD up to High RH13 8EQ up to High RH13 8GT up to High RH13 8HF up to High RH13 8LR up to High RH13 0QT up to Medium RH13 6RL up to Medium RH13 8LJ up to Medium RH13 6EL up to Low RH13 8DT up to Low RH13 8EH up to Low RH13 8HE up to Low RH13 8LH up to Low RH13 8PX up to Low RH13 8QH up to Low RH13 8RA up to Low RH13 9LJ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near RH13

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

132 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (25 at warning level or above), most recently 14 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

RH12 RH14 RH11 RH15 RH10 RH16 RH17 RH9

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.