Does SS6 flood?

Yes — parts of the SS6 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 24 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SS6 postcode district covers Lodge, Downhall and Rawreth, Trinity, Wheatley, close to Wickford, Southend, and surrounding villages in parts of England and Essex.

24 postcodes in the SS6 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 2 medium, 18 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 SS6 postcodes are at risk?

SS6 7LW up to High SS6 7LX up to High SS6 9DE up to High SS6 9ES up to High SS6 9DF up to Medium SS6 9SS up to Medium SS6 7AR up to Low SS6 7FY up to Low SS6 7LN up to Low SS6 7NP up to Low SS6 7NT up to Low SS6 7NW up to Low SS6 7PE up to Low SS6 7QU up to Low SS6 7XJ up to Low SS6 7XN up to Low SS6 8HN up to Low SS6 8NN up to Low SS6 8NS up to Low SS6 8QS up to Low SS6 8QU up to Low SS6 8YW up to Low SS6 9DJ up to Low SS6 9HU up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near SS6

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

Wickford on the River Crouch — 6.7 km away, highest on record 2.69m
Noak Bridge on the River Crouch — 12.5 km away, highest on record 1.14m
Sandon Bridge on the Sandon Brook — 15.8 km away, highest on record 1.66m
Wardropers on the River Wid — 16.2 km away, highest on record 2.34m

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):

1968 September Flood Outline (1968) — about 54.1 km from the centre
1958 Flood Outline (1958) — about 11.9 km from the centre
1953 Coast Flood Outline Essex (1953) — about 21 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

SS5 SS7 SS4 SS8 SS3 SS9 SS2 SS1

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.