Does SY9 flood?

Yes — parts of the SY9 district carry real flood risk: 6 of its 10 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SY9 postcode district covers Bishop's Castle, Clun and surrounding villages in parts of Shropshire and Powys.

10 postcodes in the SY9 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 6 high, 4 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 SY9 postcodes are at risk?

SY9 5EG up to High SY9 5EH up to High SY9 5GB up to High SY9 5JX up to High SY9 5JY up to High SY9 5LQ up to High SY9 5DT up to Low SY9 5EB up to Low SY9 5LN up to Low SY9 5LU up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near SY9

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

No official flood warning or alert is on record for areas near the centre of this district since 2006. No warning on record here means the Environment Agency has issued no flood warning or alert for a flood area within that distance since its record begins in 2006. Warnings are issued for areas, not addresses, and when flooding is expected rather than when it happens, and the record covers England only — so this is the state of the warning record, not evidence a place has not flooded.

No recorded flood extent is mapped near this district's centre. No recorded outline near the district means no flood was mapped here, which is not evidence none happened: the Environment Agency mapped only some floods, mapping effort rose sharply after about 2000, and surface-water flooding is largely absent from this record.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

SY10 SY8 SY11 SY7 SY12 SY6 SY13 SY5

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.