Does DE23 flood?

Yes — parts of the DE23 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 20 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The DE23 postcode district covers Blagreaves, close to Derby, Willington, Egginton, and surrounding villages in parts of Derbyshire and Staffordshire.

20 postcodes in the DE23 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 10 medium, 6 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 DE23 postcodes are at risk?

DE23 1GQ up to High DE23 2FP up to High DE23 2FU up to High DE23 2JT up to High DE23 1HF up to Medium DE23 1HG up to Medium DE23 1HJ up to Medium DE23 1JN up to Medium DE23 1JP up to Medium DE23 1WB up to Medium DE23 1WN up to Medium DE23 2PP up to Medium DE23 2UB up to Medium DE23 2YS up to Medium DE23 1JL up to Low DE23 1RE up to Low DE23 1TW up to Low DE23 3AD up to Low DE23 3AE up to Low DE23 3AS up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near DE23

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

Derby Bridge Street on the Markeaton Brook — 4.1 km away, highest on record 1.94m
Derby City on the River Derwent — 4.5 km away, highest on record 3.58m
Willington on the River Trent — 6.1 km away, highest on record 3.71m
Egginton on the Egginton Brook — 7.7 km away, highest on record 2.21m

553 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (157 at warning level or above), most recently 27 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Lower Trent 8 Nov 2000 (2000) — about 11.9 km from the centre
January 1987 (1987) — about 2.8 km from the centre
1986 Doles Brook (1986) — about 3.1 km from the centre
Fluvial Trent Winter 1981-82 (1981) — about 5.4 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

DE22 DE24 DE21 DE15 DE14 DE13 DE12 DE11

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.