Does SO18 flood?

Yes — parts of the SO18 district carry real flood risk: 29 of its 58 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SO18 postcode district covers Bitterne Park, Swaythling, Eastleigh South, West End North, close to Woolston, Southampton, Millbrook, and surrounding villages in parts of Hampshire and England.

58 postcodes in the SO18 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 29 high, 6 medium, 22 low, 1 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 SO18 postcodes are at risk?

SO18 1AB up to High SO18 1AD up to High SO18 1AX up to High SO18 1AY up to High SO18 1BZ up to High SO18 1DP up to High SO18 1EA up to High SO18 1EB up to High SO18 1ED up to High SO18 1GB up to High SO18 1GD up to High SO18 1GE up to High SO18 1HL up to High SO18 1NQ up to High SO18 1NX up to High SO18 1QN up to High SO18 1UB up to High SO18 1UD up to High SO18 1UG up to High SO18 1ZA up to High SO18 2HP up to High SO18 2JL up to High SO18 2JQ up to High SO18 2JR up to High SO18 2JY up to High SO18 2LF up to High SO18 2QN up to High SO18 2ST up to High SO18 3HW up to High SO18 1BD up to Medium SO18 1DU up to Medium SO18 1EG up to Medium SO18 1ER up to Medium SO18 2PF up to Medium SO18 2RN up to Medium SO18 1AL up to Low SO18 1AW up to Low SO18 1BA up to Low SO18 1BB up to Low SO18 1BH up to Low SO18 1DH up to Low SO18 1GH up to Low SO18 1GT up to Low SO18 1HP up to Low SO18 1UH up to Low SO18 2DP up to Low SO18 2FW up to Low SO18 2FX up to Low SO18 2JB up to Low SO18 2JD up to Low SO18 2NF up to Low SO18 2NH up to Low SO18 2RA up to Low SO18 2RP up to Low SO18 2RT up to Low SO18 3AD up to Low SO18 3QL up to Low SO18 2QS up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near SO18

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

361 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (84 at warning level or above), most recently 18 February 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

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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.