Does SS2 flood?

Yes — parts of the SS2 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 30 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SS2 postcode district covers St Laurence, Prittlewell, St. Luke's, Roche South, close to Southend, and surrounding villages in England.

30 postcodes in the SS2 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high, 3 medium, 25 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 SS2 postcodes are at risk?

SS2 6AH up to High SS2 6UN up to High SS2 6BJ up to Medium SS2 6NA up to Medium SS2 6NJ up to Medium SS2 5RR up to Low SS2 5SJ up to Low SS2 6AS up to Low SS2 6AW up to Low SS2 6AX up to Low SS2 6AY up to Low SS2 6BE up to Low SS2 6BH up to Low SS2 6BQ up to Low SS2 6BT up to Low SS2 6BY up to Low SS2 6DH up to Low SS2 6DJ up to Low SS2 6GD up to Low SS2 6NB up to Low SS2 6PU up to Low SS2 6PX up to Low SS2 6PY up to Low SS2 6QN up to Low SS2 6RH up to Low SS2 6TS up to Low SS2 6TT up to Low SS2 6UE up to Low SS2 6UH up to Low SS2 6XR up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near SS2

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

92 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (17 at warning level or above), most recently 13 June 2025. 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

SS1 SS3 SS0 SS4 SS5 SS6 SS7 SS8

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.