Does SS9 flood?

Yes — parts of the SS9 district carry real flood risk: 14 of its 57 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SS9 postcode district covers Eastwood Park, West Leigh, Leigh, St Laurence, close to Southend, Wickford, and surrounding villages in Essex.

57 postcodes in the SS9 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 14 high, 14 medium, 29 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 SS9 postcodes are at risk?

SS9 1BD up to High SS9 1EE up to High SS9 2BG up to High SS9 2EN up to High SS9 2EP up to High SS9 2ER up to High SS9 2ES up to High SS9 2ET up to High SS9 2GB up to High SS9 3JT up to High SS9 5NL up to High SS9 5XR up to High SS9 5YE up to High SS9 5YG up to High SS9 3SJ up to Medium SS9 5EG up to Medium SS9 5EQ up to Medium SS9 5HQ up to Medium SS9 5HR up to Medium SS9 5NU up to Medium SS9 5PR up to Medium SS9 5PS up to Medium SS9 5PX up to Medium SS9 5TR up to Medium SS9 5XB up to Medium SS9 5XE up to Medium SS9 5XF up to Medium SS9 5XG up to Medium SS9 3AJ up to Low SS9 3PB up to Low SS9 3QJ up to Low SS9 3SH up to Low SS9 3SP up to Low SS9 3TX up to Low SS9 3UB up to Low SS9 5EA up to Low SS9 5EB up to Low SS9 5EF up to Low SS9 5HA up to Low SS9 5HB up to Low SS9 5HE up to Low SS9 5HH up to Low SS9 5HL up to Low SS9 5HS up to Low SS9 5JL up to Low SS9 5JT up to Low SS9 5NT up to Low SS9 5PL up to Low SS9 5PW up to Low SS9 5TT up to Low SS9 5XA up to Low SS9 5XJ up to Low SS9 5XP up to Low SS9 5XW up to Low SS9 5YD up to Low SS9 5YQ up to Low SS9 7YY up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near SS9

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

90 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (15 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

SS8 SS11 SS7 SS12 SS6 SS13 SS5 SS14

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.