Does SS13 flood?

Yes — parts of the SS13 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 24 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SS13 postcode district covers Pitsea North West, Pitsea South East, close to Wickford, Great Burstead, Billericay, and surrounding villages in Essex.

24 postcodes in the SS13 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 2 medium, 19 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 SS13 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near SS13

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

Wickford on the River Crouch — 3.1 km away, highest on record 2.69m
Noak Bridge on the River Crouch — 5.5 km away, highest on record 1.14m
Wardropers on the River Wid — 10.1 km away, highest on record 2.34m
Mountnessing on the River Wid — 13.2 km away, highest on record 2.75m

66 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 5 January 2025. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

1968 September Flood Outline (1968) — about 55.7 km from the centre
1958 Flood Outline (1958) — about 12 km from the centre
1953 Coast Flood Outline Essex (1953) — about 26.8 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

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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.