Does TN18 5EU flood?

Beal's Green, Kent

Up to Low likelihood

Properties in TN18 5EU sit in the Environment Agency's Low flood-likelihood band (worst property). The band is the worst found in the postcode — it describes the land around properties (defence-adjusted, rivers & sea), not any single address, and not today's conditions.

Likelihood bandAnnual chancePropertiesOf which homes
Highgreater than 3.3%00
Medium1% – 3.3%00
Low0.1% – 1%11
Very lowbelow 0.1%00

Over a 25-year mortgage, a property in a low-likelihood area has a 2–22% chance of flooding at least once.

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Inside the full report for TN18 5EU

FloodRadarProperty Flood-Risk Report
TN18 5EU
Moderate flood risk — investigate further

Because properties in the low likelihood band; 61 official warnings since 2006.

C Today — indicative grade (A best → E)
··· By the 2050s — EA climate scenario (in the full report)
⚑ Official warning within 10 km: Yes ⚑ Recorded flood nearby: No ⚑ Flood defences within 500 m: No ⚑ In flood zone 2 or 3: ···
Rivers & sea
Up to Low
Surface water
···
Groundwater
Not assessed
Historic flooding
None within ~1 km
Warning history · flood map with building picker · 2050s view · insurance outlook · every dataset receipt — 18 sections

Flood-risk map of this area

Environment Agency flood-likelihood cells
High (>3.3%/yr) Medium Low Very low Marker = postcode centre Base map © OpenStreetMap contributors

The map above shows the real EA rivers & sea likelihood cells around TN18 5EU. The small panels are illustrative previews of the report's per-layer map views — the full report draws each layer for real, plus recorded extents, defences and a building picker on an interactive map.

Official flood warnings near TN18 5EU

61
flood alerts & warnings within 10 km since 2012
24
of them full flood warnings or severe warnings
2026
most recent warning nearby (2026-02-05)

Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Named storms that brought flooding here

2013-14 UK winter floods (2013, 9 warnings nearby) · Bella (2020, 3 warnings nearby) · Henk (2024, 2 warnings nearby) · Dennis (2020, 2 warnings nearby)

The rivers that matter for TN18 5EU

GaugeRiverDistanceTypical highHighest on record
Udiam River Rother 7.3 km 2.30 m 3.36 m
UDIAM GS 7.3 km
BEWL BRIDGE GS 7.9 km
Browns Bridge Dudwell Tributary Rother 8.9 km 1.40 m 1.66 m

Live levels, predictions and rain-response behaviour are on each gauge's page and in the property report.

Storm overflows within 5 km

OverflowDischarges intoDistanceSpillsHours
Castle Terrace Cso (hawkhurst) Tributary Of Hexden Channel 0.5 km 59 (2024) 406
Hawkhurst North Wwtw Hexden Channel 0.8 km 213 (2024) 4,084
Cockshot Farm Cso, Hawkhurst, Kent The Hawkhurst South Stream 1.7 km 38 (2024) 195
Hawkhurst South Wwtw The Hawkhurst South Stream 2.5 km 74 (2024) 713

Official annual EDM figures — a water-quality signal for local watercourses, not a property flood-risk factor.

Flood defences

No mapped flood-defence assets within 500 m of the postcode centre. Defences reduce risk, never remove it.

What the full property report adds

The interactive flood-risk map with a building picker (your exact house, not the postcode), the 2050s climate view, surface-water and planning flood zones at your building, exact recorded-flood distances, year-by-year warning charts, watercourses including culverted streams, an insurance outlook with the Flood Re rules, and a printable document with every dataset receipt — start with the free preview, unlock for £19.

Flood risk at nearby postcodes

At-risk postcodes near TN18 5EU — all in the TN18 district.

© 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. Place names: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Recorded Flood Outlines and warning history © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. Storm-overflow figures: EA Event Duration Monitoring. Flood defences © Environment Agency (OGL v3). This page summarises public area-level data — it is not a flood-risk survey and not a substitute for the official GOV.UK service. All data sources & licences. More postcodes: the TN18 district.