Does RM9 flood?

Yes — parts of the RM9 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 47 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The RM9 postcode district covers Barking Riverside, Beam, Goresbrook, Beam Park, close to Elm Park, Seven Kings, Romford, and surrounding villages in parts of England and Kent.

47 postcodes in the RM9 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 2 medium, 28 low, 14 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 RM9 postcodes are at risk?

RM9 6PU up to High RM9 6QD up to High RM9 6SA up to High RM9 6GQ up to Medium RM9 6XZ up to Medium RM9 6DE up to Low RM9 6EG up to Low RM9 6FA up to Low RM9 6FB up to Low RM9 6FF up to Low RM9 6FH up to Low RM9 6FJ up to Low RM9 6FL up to Low RM9 6FX up to Low RM9 6FY up to Low RM9 6FZ up to Low RM9 6GD up to Low RM9 6GF up to Low RM9 6GH up to Low RM9 6GJ up to Low RM9 6LF up to Low RM9 6PR up to Low RM9 6QJ up to Low RM9 6RH up to Low RM9 6RS up to Low RM9 6SJ up to Low RM9 6UP up to Low RM9 6UU up to Low RM9 6XJ up to Low RM9 6XY up to Low RM9 6YD up to Low RM9 6YG up to Low RM9 6YJ up to Low RM9 6BF up to Very low RM9 6FG up to Very low RM9 6FR up to Very low RM9 6FS up to Very low RM9 6LB up to Very low RM9 6LH up to Very low RM9 6LN up to Very low RM9 6LP up to Very low RM9 6PE up to Very low RM9 6PF up to Very low RM9 6RA up to Very low RM9 6RJ up to Very low RM9 6RL up to Very low RM9 6YE up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near RM9

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

162 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (38 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

RM10 RM11 RM7 RM12 RM6 RM13 RM5 RM14

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.