Does SW10 flood?

Yes — parts of the SW10 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 14 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SW10 postcode district covers Chelsea Riverside, Sands End, close to Westminster, Barnes, Merton, and surrounding villages in parts of England and Surrey.

14 postcodes in the SW10 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high, 12 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 SW10 postcodes are at risk?

SW10 0DG up to High SW10 0QF up to High SW10 0DJ up to Very low SW10 0DQ up to Very low SW10 0ES up to Very low SW10 0ET up to Very low SW10 0NA up to Very low SW10 0PZ up to Very low SW10 0QD up to Very low SW10 0QH up to Very low SW10 0QJ up to Very low SW10 0UY up to Very low SW10 0XD up to Very low SW10 0XG up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near SW10

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

Barnes on the Beverley Brook — 4.7 km away, highest on record 2.03m
Summerstown on the River Wandle — 5.7 km away, highest on record 3.23m
Wandle Park Side Channel on the River Wandle — 6.6 km away, highest on record 1.24m
Wandle Park Main Channel on the River Wandle — 6.6 km away, highest on record 2.00m

1,126 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (3 at warning level or above), most recently 15 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

TTD_FEO_1928 (1928) — about 6.8 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

SW11 SW8 SW13 SW14 SW6 SW15 SW16 SW17

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.