Does SS5 flood?

Yes — parts of the SS5 district carry real flood risk: 5 of its 24 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SS5 postcode district covers Hullbridge, Hawkwell West, Hockley and Ashingdon, close to Wickford, Southend, Sandon, and surrounding villages in parts of Essex and England.

24 postcodes in the SS5 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 5 high, 1 medium, 10 low, 8 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 SS5 postcodes are at risk?

SS5 4LH up to High SS5 4LL up to High SS5 6PL up to High SS5 6PY up to High SS5 6QB up to High SS5 6LX up to Medium SS5 4LB up to Low SS5 4LG up to Low SS5 5LN up to Low SS5 5LQ up to Low SS5 6EP up to Low SS5 6JP up to Low SS5 6JW up to Low SS5 6PZ up to Low SS5 6QA up to Low SS5 6QE up to Low SS5 5FA up to Very low SS5 5LU up to Very low SS5 5LX up to Very low SS5 5LY up to Very low SS5 5NB up to Very low SS5 5ND up to Very low SS5 5NG up to Very low SS5 5NQ up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near SS5

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

Wickford on the River Crouch — 8.4 km away, highest on record 2.69m
Sandon Bridge on the Sandon Brook — 13.4 km away, highest on record 1.66m
Noak Bridge on the River Crouch — 15.2 km away, highest on record 1.14m
SPRINGFIELD FGS AND RAINGAUGE — 17.3 km away

71 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 13 June 2025. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

2013 Flood Outline (2013) — about 89.8 km from the centre
1968 September Flood Outline (1968) — about 50.1 km from the centre
1958 Flood Outline (1958) — about 9.6 km from the centre
1953 Coast Flood Outline Essex (1953) — about 16.8 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

SS4 SS6 SS3 SS7 SS2 SS8 SS1 SS9

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.