Does B97 flood?

Yes — parts of the B97 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 21 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The B97 postcode district covers Batchley & Brockhill, Astwood Bank & Feckenham, Tardebigge, close to Studley, Feckenham, Stoke Prior, and surrounding villages in parts of Worcestershire and Warwickshire.

21 postcodes in the B97 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 10 medium, 7 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 B97 postcodes are at risk?

B97 5NS up to High B97 5QP up to High B97 6AW up to High B97 6JA up to High B97 6BA up to Medium B97 6DJ up to Medium B97 6DL up to Medium B97 6EF up to Medium B97 6HZ up to Medium B97 6JG up to Medium B97 6JT up to Medium B97 6JX up to Medium B97 6QE up to Medium B97 6SA up to Medium B97 5UH up to Low B97 6BQ up to Low B97 6EH up to Low B97 6EL up to Low B97 6HY up to Low B97 6JB up to Low B97 6QT up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near B97

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

Studley on the River Arrow — 6 km away, highest on record 2.72m
Feckenham on the Bow Brook — 7 km away, highest on record 2.47m
Bromsgrove Burcot Avenue on the Spadesbourne Brook — 7.4 km away, highest on record 0.50m
Bromsgrove Factory Lane on the Spadesbourne Brook — 7.9 km away, highest on record 1.71m

233 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (10 at warning level or above), most recently 12 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Redditch_07_2007 (2007) — about 3.8 km from the centre
M_LS_Jan_1985 (1985) — about 17.2 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

B96 B98 B95 B94 B93 B92 B91 B90

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.