Does TQ10 flood?

Yes — parts of the TQ10 district carry real flood risk: 9 of its 23 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The TQ10 postcode district covers South Brent, Ermington & Ugborough, close to Didworthy, Buckfastleigh, Harford, and surrounding villages in Devon.

23 postcodes in the TQ10 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 9 high, 3 medium, 11 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 TQ10 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near TQ10

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

Didworthy on the River Avon — 2.6 km away, highest on record 2.04m
Buckfastleigh Higher Town Bridge on the River Mardle — 6.6 km away, highest on record 1.75m
Buckfastleigh Kingcombe Court on the Dean Burn — 6.7 km away, highest on record 1.58m
Harford on the River Erme — 6.8 km away, highest on record 2.37m

487 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (97 at warning level or above), most recently 26 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

River Avon Dec 79 (1979) — about 4.3 km from the centre
River Avon 79 (1979) — about 4.6 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

TQ11 TQ9 TQ12 TQ8 TQ13 TQ7 TQ14 TQ6

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.