Does RM16 flood?

Yes — parts of the RM16 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 12 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The RM16 postcode district covers Orsett, Chadwell St Mary, Chafford and North Stifford, East Tilbury, close to Tilbury, Upminster, Hawley, and surrounding villages in parts of England and Kent.

12 postcodes in the RM16 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 2 low, 6 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 RM16 postcodes are at risk?

RM16 3EL up to High RM16 3HX up to High RM16 5UE up to High RM16 5UJ up to High RM16 3AN up to Low RM16 5TZ up to Low RM16 3BD up to Very low RM16 4DL up to Very low RM16 4LD up to Very low RM16 4LT up to Very low RM16 4LU up to Very low RM16 5UL up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near RM16

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

HAWLEY GS — 11.5 km away
Hawley on the River Darent — 11.5 km away, highest on record 0.64m
Noak Bridge on the River Crouch — 12 km away, highest on record 1.14m
Hornchurch_Bretons Farm on the River Beam — 12.2 km away, highest on record 1.67m

266 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (75 at warning level or above), most recently 18 April 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

07337E200_SEPT1968_Darent_Dartford (1968) — about 8.4 km from the centre
1968 September Flood Outline (1968) — about 68.5 km from the centre
1958 Flood Outline (1958) — about 25.7 km from the centre
1953 Coast Flood Outline Essex (1953) — about 41.5 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

RM15 RM17 RM14 RM18 RM13 RM19 RM12 RM20

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.