Does DE55 flood?

Yes — parts of the DE55 district carry real flood risk: 13 of its 24 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The DE55 postcode district covers Crich & South Wingfield, Somercotes, Alfreton, Blackwell, close to Pinxton, Ripley, Belper, and surrounding villages in parts of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.

24 postcodes in the DE55 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 13 high, 2 medium, 9 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 DE55 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near DE55

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

Pinxton on the River Erewash — 4.4 km away, highest on record 2.65m
Wingfield Park on the River Amber — 4.8 km away, highest on record 2.97m
Belper on the Coppice Brook — 9.2 km away, highest on record 1.44m
Smithy Houses on the Bottle Brook — 9.3 km away, highest on record 1.51m

131 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (44 at warning level or above), most recently 28 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Shirland October 2023 (2023) — about 2.9 km from the centre
20000614 (2000) — about 5.3 km from the centre
Erewash 26th Feb 1977 (1977) — about 12 km from the centre
Erewash 25th Feb 1977 (1977) — about 11.6 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

DE56 DE45 DE65 DE72 DE73 DE74 DE75 DE24

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.