Does TN40 flood?

Yes — parts of the TN40 district carry real flood risk: 9 of its 15 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The TN40 postcode district covers Bexhill Pebsham & St Michaels, Bexhill Sackville, Bexhill Central, close to Sheepwash Bridge, Crowhurst, Pevensey Bay, and surrounding villages in East Sussex.

15 postcodes in the TN40 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 9 high, 5 low, 1 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 TN40 postcodes are at risk?

TN40 1AY up to High TN40 1BN up to High TN40 1HB up to High TN40 1JS up to High TN40 1JT up to High TN40 1JU up to High TN40 1LA up to High TN40 1NY up to High TN40 1PL up to High TN40 2SJ up to Low TN40 2SL up to Low TN40 2SS up to Low TN40 2SW up to Low TN40 2TD up to Low TN40 2PT up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near TN40

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

Crowhurst on the Combe Haven — 3.9 km away, highest on record 7.00m
COOMBE BRIDGE GS — 8 km away
HAMMERWOOD BRIDGE GS — 9.3 km away
HENLEY BRIDGE GS — 10.1 km away

289 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (37 at warning level or above), most recently 26 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

07418K109FEO_DEC2009_Gorringe_Stream (2009) — about 1.7 km from the centre
07418K101FEO_DEC2009_Coombe_Haven (2009) — about 2.7 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

TN39 TN38 TN37 TN36 TN35 TN34 TN33 TN32

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.