Does SE25 flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in SE25: none of its 10 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The SE25 postcode district covers South Norwood, Selhurst, close to Beddington, Eden Park, Streatham, and surrounding villages in parts of England and Surrey.

10 postcodes in the SE25 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 10 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 SE25 postcodes are at risk?

SE25 5EG up to Low SE25 5EH up to Low SE25 5EQ up to Low SE25 5QB up to Low SE25 6AW up to Low SE25 6JD up to Low SE25 6JQ up to Low SE25 6LH up to Low SE25 6LL up to Low SE25 6NS up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near SE25

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

Thornton Heath on the Norbury Brook — 0.6 km away, highest on record 2.53m
Waddon Ponds on the River Wandle — 3.2 km away, highest on record 0.43m
Upper Elmers End on the St James Stream — 3.7 km away, highest on record 1.74m
Beddington Park on the River Wandle — 4.1 km away, highest on record 1.83m

162 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (14 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):

September 1968 flooding — about 3.1 km from the centre
November 1965 flooding — about 2.8 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

SE26 SE28 SE20 SE18 SE17 SE16 SE15 SE14

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.