Blackwood Flood Risk
Blackwood has a Low flood risk from rivers and the sea , with 0% of homes in a Medium or High band.
Blackwood has 12,928 residents and 5,637 homes. Ranked 291 of 621 in Wales for rivers and sea flood risk.
When Has Blackwood Flooded Before?
The Environment Agency holds 2 recorded flood outlines covering Blackwood, the most recent dated 27 December 1979.
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 Blackwood's Flood Risk Classification Mean?
1% of postcodes in Blackwood 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% 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 Blackwood?
Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Blackwood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NP12 | 306 | Low | not published for this district |