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Does RH16 flood?

Yes — parts of the RH16 district carry real flood risk: 11 of its 40 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The RH16 postcode district covers Haywards Heath North, Lindfield, Lindfield Rural & High Weald, Haywards Heath Bentswood & Heath, close to Ardingly, Scayne's Hill, Newick, and surrounding villages in parts of West Sussex and East Sussex.

40 postcodes in the RH16 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 11 high, 16 medium, 13 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 RH16 postcodes are at risk?

RH16 1NT up to High RH16 1TE up to High RH16 1TH up to High RH16 1TW up to High RH16 2BG up to High RH16 2BQ up to High RH16 2DE up to High RH16 2QA up to High RH16 2QP up to High RH16 2QY up to High RH16 2RF up to High RH16 1NJ up to Medium RH16 1NS up to Medium RH16 1PJ up to Medium RH16 1PP up to Medium RH16 1RJ up to Medium RH16 1TF up to Medium RH16 1TX up to Medium RH16 1UA up to Medium RH16 2AA up to Medium RH16 2AE up to Medium RH16 2BN up to Medium RH16 2DB up to Medium RH16 2DD up to Medium RH16 2DF up to Medium RH16 2QQ up to Medium RH16 2RS up to Medium RH16 1NH up to Low RH16 1NR up to Low RH16 1PH up to Low RH16 1PW up to Low RH16 1UD up to Low RH16 2AB up to Low RH16 2AR up to Low RH16 2AU up to Low RH16 2AY up to Low RH16 2AZ up to Low RH16 2BJ up to Low RH16 2DS up to Low RH16 2DT up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near RH16

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

178 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (36 at warning level or above), most recently 26 August 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

RH15 RH17 RH14 RH18 RH13 RH19 RH12 RH20

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.