Does B63 flood?

Yes — parts of the B63 district carry real flood risk: 10 of its 25 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The B63 postcode district covers Belle Vale, Hayley Green & Cradley South, Cradley North & Wollescote, close to Halesowen Dogkennel Lane, Halesowen Manor Way, Halesowen, and surrounding villages in parts of West Midlands and Worcestershire.

25 postcodes in the B63 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 10 high, 1 medium, 14 low. A postcode not listed here has no properties in any recorded risk band (which is good news, but never proof it cannot flood).

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Which B63 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near B63

The rivers that matter here, each monitored live on FloodRadar:

Halesowen Dogkennel Lane on the River Stour — 1 km away, highest on record 1.47m
Halesowen Manor Way on the Illey Brook — 1.2 km away, highest on record 2.25m
Halesowen on the River Stour — 1.2 km away, highest on record 2.72m
Stourbridge on the River Stour — 5.9 km away, highest on record 2.26m

104 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (104 at warning level or above), most recently 27 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

Illey Bk flood from Manor Way to Halesmere Way (2008) — about 1.2 km from the centre
River Stour, Overbury Cl and Grange Cr Halesowen (2008) — about 0.9 km from the centre
M_LS_Jan_1985 (1985) — about 34.2 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

B62 B64 B61 B65 B60 B66 B68 B69

Band = the worst likelihood band of any property in that postcode (EA Risk of Flooding from Rivers & Sea, defence-adjusted, area-level). Check any postcode in detail — or get the full £19 property report — at the property flood-risk report. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH). © Crown Copyright and Database Rights 2025 OS AC0000807064. This product is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, the copyright in which is owned by Royal Mail Group Limited and/or Royal Mail Group plc. All rights reserved. Licence number AC0000807064.