Does SO45 1TW flood?

Up to High likelihood

Properties in SO45 1TW sit in the Environment Agency's High flood-likelihood band (worst property). The band is the worst found in the postcode — it describes the land around properties (defence-adjusted, rivers & sea), not any single address, and not today's conditions.

Likelihood bandAnnual chancePropertiesOf which homes
Highgreater than 3.3%10
Medium1% – 3.3%40
Low0.1% – 1%10
Very lowbelow 0.1%00

Over a 25-year mortgage, a property in a high-likelihood area has at least a 57% chance of flooding at least once.

How much rain falls on SO45 1TW

SO45 1TW gets about 814 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 100 mm; driest May, 46 mm). That is 30% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year.

A thirty-year average for the surrounding area, not a measurement at this address and not a flood risk on its own: a dry area floods when a storm sits over it, and a wet one may drain away perfectly well. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 0.2 km away. Average rainfall: HadUK-Grid v1.3.2, Met Office. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

The ground around SO45 1TW

The ground here sits at about -8 m above sea level and falls 34 m across the surrounding 800 m. Surface water reaching this point runs off ground lying to the west-south-west, 21.2 m higher.

Shaded relief map of the ground around SO451TW, computed from Environment Agency LiDAR. The ground here sits at about -8 m above sea level and falls 34 m across the surrounding 800 m. Surface water reaching this point runs off ground lying to the west-south-west, 21.2 m higher.
Shaded relief of the bare ground within about 400 m of SO45 1TW, computed from the Environment Agency's published LiDAR terrain survey. The ring marks the postcode centre, not a property. This shows the shape of the land, not a flood map — it does not include drains, culverts, walls or kerbs, and the official likelihood band above is the authoritative figure. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved.

The watercourse nearest SO45 1TW

The river map has no watercourse within 1 km of the centre of SO45 1TW.

That means this spot is not on the river map, not that there is no water here: Ordnance Survey’s river map (OS Open Rivers) leaves out small streams, ditches and culverts. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

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Inside the full report for SO45 1TW

FloodRadarProperty Flood-Risk Report
SO45 1TW
Elevated flood risk — professional assessment recommended

Because properties in the high likelihood band; 310 official warnings since 2006.

E Today — indicative grade (A best → E)
··· By the 2050s — EA climate scenario (in the full report)
⚑ Official warning within 10 km: Yes ⚑ Recorded flood outline within ~1 km: None mapped ⚑ Flood defence mapped within 500 m: None mapped ⚑ In flood zone 2 or 3: ···
Rivers & sea
Up to High
Surface water
···
Groundwater
Not assessed
Historic flooding
None mapped within ~1 km
Warning history · flood map with building picker · 2050s view · insurance outlook · every dataset receipt — 18 sections

Flood-risk map of this area

Environment Agency flood-likelihood cells
High (>3.3%/yr) Medium Low Very low Marker = postcode centre Base map © OpenStreetMap contributors

The map above shows the real EA rivers & sea likelihood cells around SO45 1TW. The small panels are illustrative previews of the report's per-layer map views — the full report draws each layer for real, plus recorded extents, defences and a building picker on an interactive map.

Official flood warnings near SO45 1TW

310
flood alerts & warnings within 10 km since 2011
57
of them full flood warnings or severe warnings
2026
most recent warning nearby (2026-08-31)

Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood outlines near this postcode

None mapped within ~1 km of this postcode's centre.

No recorded outline near this postcode means no flood was mapped here, which is not evidence none happened: the Environment Agency mapped only some floods, mapping effort rose sharply after about 2000, and surface-water flooding is largely absent from this record. The full report tests every other flood source at the exact building.

The rivers that matter for SO45 1TW

GaugeRiverDistanceTypical highHighest on record
Brownwich Pond Brownwich Stream 4.7 km 1.18 m 1.18 m
Titchfield Canal River Meon 7.7 km 2.80 m 2.80 m
Titchfield River Meon 7.7 km 2.00 m 2.35 m
Hobb Lane River Hamble 10.9 km 20.80 m 21.96 m

Live levels, predictions and rain-response behaviour are on each gauge's page and in the property report.

Storm overflows within 5 km

OverflowDischarges intoDistanceSpillsHours
Ashlett Creek Wwtw Southampton Water 1.4 km 32 (2024) 516
West Common Road Fawley Ceo Dark Water 3.3 km 28 (2024) 84
West Common Road Fawley Ceo Dark Water 3.3 km 1 (2024) 0
Hook Park Wps Southampton Water 3.3 km 14 (2024) 80

Official annual EDM figures — a water-quality signal for local watercourses, not a property flood-risk factor.

Flood defences

No mapped flood-defence assets within 500 m of the postcode centre. Defences reduce risk, never remove it.

What the full property report adds

The interactive flood-risk map with a building picker (your exact house, not the postcode), the 2050s climate view, surface-water and planning flood zones at your building, exact recorded-flood distances, year-by-year warning charts, watercourses including culverted streams, an insurance outlook with the Flood Re rules, and a printable document with every dataset receipt — start with the free preview, unlock for £19.

Flood risk at nearby postcodes

At-risk postcodes near SO45 1TW — all in the SO45 district.

© 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. Recorded Flood Outlines and warning history © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. Storm-overflow figures: EA Event Duration Monitoring (England); live overflow status © the water companies, incl. Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water and Scottish Water. Flood defences © Environment Agency (OGL v3). This page summarises public area-level data — it is not a flood-risk survey and not a substitute for the official GOV.UK service. All data sources & licences. More postcodes: the SO45 district.