Flood risk in PO39 (Freshwater and Totland)
Of the 117 postcodes in PO39 – covering Freshwater and Totland – none has its centre in Flood Zone 2 or 3 on the Environment Agency’s Flood Map for Planning. River and sea flood risk across the district is low.
Flood zones only cover rivers and the sea, and ignore flood defences. Surface water from heavy rain can affect any street, including in Zone 1.
Main rivers in Isle of Wight
River Medina – Newport and Cowes
Eastern Yar – Sandown and Bembridge
Western Yar – Yarmouth and Freshwater
More on the area in our Isle of Wight flood risk guide.
How these figures are worked out
We took the centre point of every live postcode in PO39 from OS Code-Point Open and tested it against the Environment Agency’s Flood Map for Planning, as published in the flood-risk-zone dataset (version of 5 November 2026). A postcode counts once, whether it has one home or forty, and a postcode whose centre is just outside a zone still counts as Zone 1. Updated November 2026.
For one address, the free postcode check looks at the zones around the postcode, and the full report adds surface water, reservoirs, recorded floods and defences.
