Stoke Gifford Flood Risk
Stoke Gifford has a Low flood risk from rivers and the sea , with 0.6% of homes in a Medium or High band. The nearest gauge is 1.9 km away.
Stoke Gifford has 12,704 residents and 4,625 homes. Ranked 2290 of 7,114 in England for rivers and sea flood risk.
What Is The River Level Near Stoke Gifford Right Now?
The nearest gauge is Bradley Bridge, 1.9 km from the centre of Stoke Gifford, at Winterbourne. Its typical range is 0 m to 0.543 m, and the highest level on record is 2.71 m, reached on 24 November 2024.
No current reading has been published for this gauge.
This river has too few gauges for its own page
When Has Stoke Gifford Flooded Before?
The Environment Agency holds 1 recorded flood outlines covering Stoke Gifford, the most recent dated 31 May 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 Stoke Gifford's Flood Risk Classification Mean?
0% of postcodes in Stoke Gifford 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 0.6% 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 Stoke Gifford?
Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Stoke Gifford. 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: every district here overlaps another place, so the checker may name a neighbouring town for some of these postcodes.
| Postcode district | Postcodes here | Rivers and sea band | Surface water addresses |
|---|---|---|---|
| BS34 | 166 | High | 648 |
| BS16 | 49 | Low | 111 |
| BS7 | 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.