Barking and Dagenham Flood Risk
Barking and Dagenham has a Low flood risk from rivers and the sea , with 1% of homes in a Medium or High band. The nearest gauge is 3.2 km away.
Barking and Dagenham has 216,701 residents and 81,033 homes. Ranked 1888 of 7,114 in England for rivers and sea flood risk.
What Is The River Level Near Barking and Dagenham Right Now?
Read from the Environment Agency flood-monitoring feed at 20 Sept, 14:34 UTC. The highest level on record here is 0.644 m , reached on 14 January 2022.
Why Are Parts Of Barking and Dagenham In Flood Zone 3 But Rated Low Risk?
14.9% of postcodes in Barking and Dagenham fall in Flood Zone 3, but the flood risk band for rivers and the sea is low. The two maps measure different things: the Flood Zone ignores defences, and the band counts them.
When Has Barking and Dagenham Flooded Before?
The Environment Agency holds 16 recorded flood outlines covering Barking and Dagenham, the most recent dated 12 December 1974.
Absence of a record is not evidence that a place has never flooded — the Environment Agency states that a lack of coverage does not mean an area has never flooded.
What Does Barking and Dagenham's Flood Risk Classification Mean?
14.9% of postcodes in Barking and Dagenham sit in Flood Zone 3, the planning band for land with a 1% or greater annual chance of river flooding or 0.5% or greater of sea flooding — and the map that draws it deliberately ignores flood defences.
The flood risk band for rivers and the sea is Low , with 1% of homes in a Medium or High band. Unlike the Flood Zone, the band counts the defences that are actually in place, which is why the two can describe the same street differently and both be right.
Barking and Dagenham is one of the places where they disagree most in England: a large share of its postcodes are in Flood Zone 3, yet few of its homes carry a Medium or High band. The gap is the defences — land the planning map must treat as floodplain, behind a barrier that lowers the present-day chance of flooding.
Which Postcode Districts Cover Barking and Dagenham?
Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Barking and Dagenham. The band is the one shared by most of that district's postcodes, so it describes the district rather than a single street — enter a full postcode in the checker for one address. A district can cover more than one town, and the district pages linked from the checker are keyed to the town that holds most of its postcodes.
| Postcode district | Postcodes here | Rivers and sea band | Surface water addresses |
|---|---|---|---|
| IG11 | 945 | High | 6,352 |
| RM10 | 566 | High | 6,989 |
| RM8 | 553 | High | 8,768 |
| RM9 | 518 | High | 7,288 |
| RM6 | 259 | High | 2,836 |
| RM7 | 66 | High | 702 |