Borough Green Flood Risk

Rivers and the sea Low a 0.1% to 1% chance in any year

Surface water 163 addresses at risk that rivers and sea does not explain — a minimum, not a total

Groundwater Not mapped No national band is published for this source

Reservoirs Not mapped No national band is published for this source

Borough Green has a Low flood risk from rivers and the sea , with 2.2% of homes in a Medium or High band. The nearest gauge is 7.9 km away.

Borough Green has 5,459 residents and 2,348 homes. Ranked 1323 of 7,114 in England for rivers and sea flood risk.

What Is The River Level Near Borough Green Right Now?

0.266 m within its typical range

Gauge: Hadlow, Hadlow
Distance: 7.9 km from the centre of Borough Green
Typical range: 0.173 m to 1.55 m
Reading taken: 20 Sept, 14:00 UTC

Read from the Environment Agency flood-monitoring feed at 20 Sept, 14:34 UTC. The highest level on record here is 2.452 m , reached on 17 October 1998.

This river has too few gauges for its own page

What Does Borough Green's Flood Risk Classification Mean?

1.7% of postcodes in Borough Green 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 2.2% 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.

Flood Zone versus flood risk band: the full comparison

Which Postcode Districts Cover Borough Green?

Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Borough Green. 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 districts covering Borough Green, with the flood risk band shared by most of each district's postcodes. A district can span more than one local area, so its band is a summary and not a property-level answer.
Postcode district	Postcodes here	Rivers and sea band	Surface water addresses
TN15	181	High	163

What Else Is Near Borough Green?

Kent flood risk Every town ranked in this county
Flood risk in England How this nation classifies flood risk, and its gaps
What each flood risk level means The annual chance behind each band word