Does RM14 flood?

Yes — parts of the RM14 district carry real flood risk: 11 of its 37 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The RM14 postcode district covers Orsett, Upminster, St Andrew's, Harold Wood, close to Elm Park, Great Burstead, Romford, and surrounding villages in parts of England and Essex.

37 postcodes in the RM14 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 11 high, 9 medium, 14 low, 3 very 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 RM14 postcodes are at risk?

RM14 2XR up to High RM14 3PB up to High RM14 3PL up to High RM14 3RP up to High RM14 3RS up to High RM14 3SD up to High RM14 3SS up to High RM14 3ST up to High RM14 3TD up to High RM14 3TR up to High RM14 3TT up to High RM14 2LX up to Medium RM14 2NL up to Medium RM14 2NS up to Medium RM14 2RB up to Medium RM14 3PA up to Medium RM14 3PD up to Medium RM14 3PH up to Medium RM14 3RL up to Medium RM14 3SB up to Medium RM14 2DD up to Low RM14 2DE up to Low RM14 2PP up to Low RM14 2QW up to Low RM14 2RA up to Low RM14 3LS up to Low RM14 3RJ up to Low RM14 3RR up to Low RM14 3RX up to Low RM14 3SA up to Low RM14 3SP up to Low RM14 3SR up to Low RM14 3TS up to Low RM14 3YT up to Low RM14 2QD up to Very low RM14 2QT up to Very low RM14 2QU up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near RM14

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

225 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (31 at warning level or above), most recently 27 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

RM13 RM15 RM12 RM16 RM11 RM17 RM10 RM18

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.