Does SW1A flood?

Yes — parts of the SW1A district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 55 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SW1A postcode district covers St James's, close to Westminster, Tower Pier, Stoke Newington, and surrounding villages in Greater London.

55 postcodes in the SW1A district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high, 53 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 SW1A postcodes are at risk?

SW1A 2HR up to High SW1A 2JH up to High SW1A 0AA up to Very low SW1A 0PW up to Very low SW1A 1AA up to Very low SW1A 2AA up to Very low SW1A 2AD up to Very low SW1A 2AE up to Very low SW1A 2AG up to Very low SW1A 2AH up to Very low SW1A 2AL up to Very low SW1A 2AP up to Very low SW1A 2AQ up to Very low SW1A 2AR up to Very low SW1A 2AS up to Very low SW1A 2AU up to Very low SW1A 2AW up to Very low SW1A 2AX up to Very low SW1A 2AY up to Very low SW1A 2BD up to Very low SW1A 2BE up to Very low SW1A 2BJ up to Very low SW1A 2BS up to Very low SW1A 2BX up to Very low SW1A 2BY up to Very low SW1A 2DD up to Very low SW1A 2DG up to Very low SW1A 2EG up to Very low SW1A 2EP up to Very low SW1A 2ER up to Very low SW1A 2ET up to Very low SW1A 2EX up to Very low SW1A 2EY up to Very low SW1A 2HB up to Very low SW1A 2HD up to Very low SW1A 2HJ up to Very low SW1A 2HN up to Very low SW1A 2HP up to Very low SW1A 2HW up to Very low SW1A 2HZ up to Very low SW1A 2JF up to Very low SW1A 2JJ up to Very low SW1A 2JL up to Very low SW1A 2JN up to Very low SW1A 2JR up to Very low SW1A 2LW up to Very low SW1A 2LZ up to Very low SW1A 2NE up to Very low SW1A 2NG up to Very low SW1A 2NH up to Very low SW1A 2NJ up to Very low SW1A 2NP up to Very low SW1A 2NS up to Very low SW1A 2NU up to Very low SW1A 2TT up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near SW1A

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

111 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (1 at warning level or above), most recently 3 March 2026. 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

SW1E SW1H SW1P SW1V SW1W SW1X SW3 SW6

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.