Birmingham Flood Risk
Birmingham has a Low flood risk from rivers and the sea , with 0.9% of homes in a Medium or High band. The nearest gauge is 1.3 km away.
Birmingham has 1,122,399 residents and 450,748 homes. Ranked 2039 of 7,114 in England for rivers and sea flood risk.
What Is The River Level Near Birmingham Right Now?
Read from the Environment Agency flood-monitoring feed at 20 Sept, 14:34 UTC. The highest level on record here is 2.503 m , reached on 27 May 2018.
When Has Birmingham Flooded Before?
The Environment Agency holds 1 recorded flood outlines covering Birmingham, the most recent dated 6 August 2008.
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 Birmingham's Flood Risk Classification Mean?
1.8% of postcodes in Birmingham 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 0.9% 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.
Which Postcode Districts Cover Birmingham?
Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Birmingham. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B31 | 1,131 | Low | 2,234 |
| B29 | 785 | Low | 1,545 |
| B23 | 770 | Low | 1,474 |
| B14 | 760 | High | 1,813 |
| B32 | 712 | Low | 1,741 |
| B37 | 712 | Low | 1,967 |
| B33 | 664 | Low | 2,235 |
| B13 | 639 | High | 1,764 |
| B44 | 625 | Low | 1,702 |
| B28 | 584 | High | 1,651 |
| B11 | 582 | Low | 2,069 |
| B30 | 580 | Low | 887 |
| B8 | 569 | Low | 1,158 |
| B36 | 567 | High | 2,029 |
| B24 | 561 | Low | 1,503 |
| B17 | 546 | Low | 1,161 |
| B26 | 545 | High | 1,564 |
| B45 | 541 | Low | 1,380 |
| B20 | 529 | Low | 2,012 |
| B12 | 465 | Low | 1,602 |
| B15 | 448 | Low | 959 |
| B16 | 442 | Low | 1,763 |
| B19 | 439 | Low | 1,115 |
| B18 | 429 | Low | 1,081 |
| B21 | 425 | Low | 955 |
| B38 | 424 | Low | 1,001 |
| B5 | 412 | High | 606 |
| B27 | 406 | Low | 983 |
| B42 | 404 | Low | 1,598 |
| B6 | 385 | Low | 991 |
| B9 | 375 | Low | 820 |
| B34 | 326 | Low | 1,245 |
| B10 | 309 | Low | 1,135 |
| B1 | 292 | Low | 1,112 |
| B35 | 279 | Low | 248 |
| B7 | 261 | Low | 267 |
| B25 | 250 | High | 1,204 |
| B4 | 162 | Low | 236 |
| B3 | 161 | Low | 1,216 |
| B2 | 129 | Low | 89 |
| B76 | 56 | Low | 186 |
| B66 | 49 | Low | 197 |
| B43 | 18 | High | 56 |
| B40 | 11 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| B71 | 11 | High | 68 |
| B62 | 9 | Medium | 19 |
| B92 | 7 | Low | 24 |
| B67 | 6 | High | 6 |
| B72 | 6 | Medium | 9 |
| B90 | 5 | High | 14 |
| B68 | 3 | Medium | 2 |
| B73 | 2 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| B47 | 1 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
"Not mapped" is not "no risk". It means no rivers-and-sea band covers that district in the source — surface water can still flood it, and both Camden and Islington flooded from surface water in July 2021 while carrying no mapped rivers-and-sea band.