Does WC2B flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in WC2B: none of its 1 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The WC2B postcode district covers Pimlico North, close to Westminster, Tower Pier, Barnes, and surrounding villages in Greater London.

1 postcode in the WC2B district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 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 WC2B postcodes are at risk?

WC2B 4RD up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near WC2B

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

Barnes on the Beverley Brook — 7.6 km away, highest on record 2.03m
Summerstown on the River Wandle — 7.8 km away, highest on record 3.23m
Abercairn Road on the River Graveney — 8.5 km away, highest on record 2.87m
Wandle Park Main Channel on the River Wandle — 8.6 km away, highest on record 2.00m

164 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (1 at warning level or above), most recently 3 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

TTD_FEO_1928 (1928) — about 4 km from the centre
TTD_FEO_1928 (1928) — about 1.7 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

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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.