Does TA16 flood?

Yes — parts of the TA16 district carry real flood risk: 5 of its 6 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The TA16 postcode district covers South Petherton & Islemoor, close to Chiselborough, Kingsbury Episcopi, Winsham, and surrounding villages in parts of Somerset and Dorset.

6 postcodes in the TA16 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 5 high, 1 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 TA16 postcodes are at risk?

TA16 5AF up to High TA16 5NF up to High TA16 5NH up to High TA16 5NL up to High TA16 5PJ up to High TA16 5AD up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near TA16

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

Chiselborough on the River Parrett — 2.6 km away, highest on record 2.93m
Gaw Bridge on the River Parrett — 7.6 km away, highest on record 3.84m
Winsham on the River Axe — 9.5 km away, highest on record 3.95m
Ashford Mill on the River Isle — 10.6 km away, highest on record 2.20m

244 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (40 at warning level or above), most recently 5 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Flood Extents_Winter 2013 to 2014 (2014) — about 8.4 km from the centre
Lopen_Winter 2013 to 2014 (2014) — about 2.3 km from the centre
Nov 2012 Floods (2012) — about 29.6 km from the centre
EA112_GouldsBrk_Lyewater_WestSt_Crewkerne_2008 (2008) — about 2.9 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

TA15 TA14 TA18 TA13 TA19 TA12 TA20 TA11

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.