Does DE5 flood?

Yes — parts of the DE5 district carry real flood risk: 9 of its 17 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The DE5 postcode district covers Kilburn, Denby, Holbrook & Horsley, Crich & South Wingfield, Ripley, Heage & Ambergate, close to Smithy Houses, Belper, Windley, and surrounding villages in parts of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.

17 postcodes in the DE5 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 9 high, 4 medium, 4 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 DE5 postcodes are at risk?

DE5 3RE up to High DE5 8LG up to High DE5 8NJ up to High DE5 8NN up to High DE5 8NQ up to High DE5 8RA up to High DE5 8RB up to High DE5 8RD up to High DE5 8RE up to High DE5 3RA up to Medium DE5 3RP up to Medium DE5 8PE up to Medium DE5 8RH up to Medium DE5 3RH up to Low DE5 3SW up to Low DE5 8JZ up to Low DE5 8ND up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near DE5

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

Smithy Houses on the Bottle Brook — 1.3 km away, highest on record 1.51m
Belper on the Coppice Brook — 2.3 km away, highest on record 1.44m
Wingfield Park on the River Amber — 4.7 km away, highest on record 2.97m
Duffield on the River Ecclesbourne — 7.7 km away, highest on record 2.15m

425 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (65 at warning level or above), most recently 26 June 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Kilburn October 2023 (2023) — about 3.4 km from the centre
Rawson Green October 2023 (2023) — about 2.3 km from the centre
Denby Bottles October 2023 (2023) — about 2.2 km from the centre
Downmeadow Brook 1977 (1977) — about 3.3 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

DE4 DE6 DE3 DE7 DE1 DE11 DE12 DE13

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.