Does SW1W flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in SW1W: none of its 45 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The SW1W postcode district covers Knightsbridge & Belgravia, Pimlico North, close to Westminster, Tower Pier, Barnes, and surrounding villages in England.

45 postcodes in the SW1W district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 45 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 SW1W postcodes are at risk?

SW1W 6LA up to Very low SW1W 8AU up to Very low SW1W 8BE up to Very low SW1W 8BG up to Very low SW1W 8BQ up to Very low SW1W 8BT up to Very low SW1W 8DE up to Very low SW1W 8DF up to Very low SW1W 8DQ up to Very low SW1W 8DS up to Very low SW1W 8DT up to Very low SW1W 8DU up to Very low SW1W 8PQ up to Very low SW1W 8PT up to Very low SW1W 8PZ up to Very low SW1W 8QA up to Very low SW1W 8QB up to Very low SW1W 8QD up to Very low SW1W 8QE up to Very low SW1W 8QF up to Very low SW1W 8QG up to Very low SW1W 8QH up to Very low SW1W 8QN up to Very low SW1W 8QQ up to Very low SW1W 8QR up to Very low SW1W 8QX up to Very low SW1W 8QY up to Very low SW1W 8QZ up to Very low SW1W 8RA up to Very low SW1W 8RB up to Very low SW1W 8RG up to Very low SW1W 8RP up to Very low SW1W 8RQ up to Very low SW1W 8RX up to Very low SW1W 8RY up to Very low SW1W 8RZ up to Very low SW1W 8SA up to Very low SW1W 8SH up to Very low SW1W 8SJ up to Very low SW1W 8SL up to Very low SW1W 8SR up to Very low SW1W 8SS up to Very low SW1W 8UN up to Very low SW1W 9SP up to Very low SW1W 9TB up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near SW1W

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

1,123 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 15 August 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 SW1E SW1H SW1P SW1V 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.