Does WC2R flood?

Yes — parts of the WC2R district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 13 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WC2R postcode district covers St James's, close to Westminster, Tower Pier, Stoke Newington, and surrounding villages in Greater London.

13 postcodes in the WC2R district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high, 11 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 WC2R postcodes are at risk?

WC2R 2PN up to High WC2R 2PP up to High WC2R 0BH up to Very low WC2R 0BL up to Very low WC2R 0BP up to Very low WC2R 1LA up to Very low WC2R 2AB up to Very low WC2R 2NS up to Very low WC2R 2PG up to Very low WC2R 2PH up to Very low WC2R 3AA up to Very low WC2R 3BD up to Very low WC2R 3DX up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near WC2R

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

Lea Bridge on the River Lee — 7.8 km away, highest on record 6.52m
Hampstead Suburb on the Mutton Brook — 9.4 km away, highest on record 1.99m
Catford Hill on the River Ravensbourne — 9.9 km away, highest on record 1.20m
Barnes on the Beverley Brook — 10 km away, highest on record 2.03m

110 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006, 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 2.8 km from the centre
TTD_FEO_1928 (1928) — 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

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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.