Does SS7 flood?

Yes — parts of the SS7 district carry real flood risk: 6 of its 57 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SS7 postcode district covers St Mary's, St Michael's, St George's, Appleton, close to Wickford, Great Burstead, Southend, and surrounding villages in parts of Essex and England.

57 postcodes in the SS7 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 6 high, 3 medium, 32 low, 16 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 SS7 postcodes are at risk?

SS7 1NA up to High SS7 1NF up to High SS7 2SL up to High SS7 2SN up to High SS7 2ST up to High SS7 2UG up to High SS7 5HF up to Medium SS7 5JG up to Medium SS7 5JW up to Medium SS7 1LA up to Low SS7 2NS up to Low SS7 2NT up to Low SS7 2NW up to Low SS7 2SJ up to Low SS7 4LU up to Low SS7 4LY up to Low SS7 4NB up to Low SS7 4NH up to Low SS7 4NN up to Low SS7 4NP up to Low SS7 5EA up to Low SS7 5EB up to Low SS7 5ED up to Low SS7 5EE up to Low SS7 5EF up to Low SS7 5EG up to Low SS7 5EH up to Low SS7 5EQ up to Low SS7 5ER up to Low SS7 5ES up to Low SS7 5ET up to Low SS7 5HE up to Low SS7 5HH up to Low SS7 5HL up to Low SS7 5HZ up to Low SS7 5JA up to Low SS7 5JF up to Low SS7 5JN up to Low SS7 5JP up to Low SS7 5JQ up to Low SS7 5LH up to Low SS7 1BZ up to Very low SS7 1LW up to Very low SS7 1NB up to Very low SS7 1ND up to Very low SS7 1NE up to Very low SS7 5BN up to Very low SS7 5DG up to Very low SS7 5DT up to Very low SS7 5EJ up to Very low SS7 5EP up to Very low SS7 5HG up to Very low SS7 5HQ up to Very low SS7 5JE up to Very low SS7 5JL up to Very low SS7 5PW up to Very low SS7 7DN up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near SS7

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

118 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (25 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

SS6 SS8 SS5 SS9 SS4 SS11 SS3 SS12

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.