Haringey Flood Risk

Haringey has a Very low flood risk from rivers and the sea , with 0.8% of homes in a Medium or High band. The nearest gauge is 3.1 km away.

Haringey has 265,685 residents and 118,872 homes. Ranked 2076 of 7,114 in England for rivers and sea flood risk.

What Is The River Level Near Haringey Right Now?

0.63 m within its typical range
Gauge
Powys Lane, Haringey
Distance
3.1 km from the centre of Haringey
Typical range
1.112 m to 2.432 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 2.047 m , reached on 20 September 2023.

All gauges on this river

When Has Haringey Flooded Before?

The Environment Agency holds 2 recorded flood outlines covering Haringey, the most recent dated 12 December 1947.

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 Haringey's Flood Risk Classification Mean?

2% of postcodes in Haringey 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 Very low , with 0.8% 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 Haringey?

Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Haringey. 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 Haringey, 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
N17 1,053 High 6,537
N15 690 High 6,671
N8 662 High 5,424
N22 630 High 4,788
N10 360 High 995
N6 360 High 604
N4 342 High 1,547
N11 117 Low 117
N2 85 High 91
N13 5 High 15
N5 5 High 126
N16 3 Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district not published for this district
N18 2 High 53
N19 2 High 22

"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.

What Else Is Near Haringey?