Does SW1E flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in SW1E: none of its 34 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The SW1E postcode district covers St James's, Pimlico North, Vincent Square, close to Westminster, Tower Pier, Barnes, and surrounding villages in Greater London.

34 postcodes in the SW1E district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 34 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 SW1E postcodes are at risk?

SW1E 5BX up to Very low SW1E 5BY up to Very low SW1E 5DJ up to Very low SW1E 5HJ up to Very low SW1E 5JL up to Very low SW1E 5LA up to Very low SW1E 5LB up to Very low SW1E 5ND up to Very low SW1E 5NE up to Very low SW1E 5NH up to Very low SW1E 6AA up to Very low SW1E 6AB up to Very low SW1E 6AE up to Very low SW1E 6AF up to Very low SW1E 6AJ up to Very low SW1E 6AS up to Very low SW1E 6AU up to Very low SW1E 6BS up to Very low SW1E 6BT up to Very low SW1E 6DR up to Very low SW1E 6DW up to Very low SW1E 6DY up to Very low SW1E 6HL up to Very low SW1E 6HQ up to Very low SW1E 6LB up to Very low SW1E 6NF up to Very low SW1E 6NN up to Very low SW1E 6PA up to Very low SW1E 6PB up to Very low SW1E 6PD up to Very low SW1E 6PE up to Very low SW1E 6PR up to Very low SW1E 6QT up to Very low SW1E 6QW up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near SW1E

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

113 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

SW1A 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.