Does DE75 flood?

Yes — parts of the DE75 district carry real flood risk: 1 of its 4 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The DE75 postcode district covers Heanor West & Loscoe, close to Smithy Houses, Eastwood, Shipley, and surrounding villages in parts of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.

4 postcodes in the DE75 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 high, 3 medium. 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 DE75 postcodes are at risk?

DE75 7LE up to High DE75 7JT up to Medium DE75 7LD up to Medium DE75 7TA up to Medium

Rivers and flooding history near DE75

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

Smithy Houses on the Bottle Brook — 3.9 km away, highest on record 1.51m
Eastwood on the Beauvale Brook — 4 km away, highest on record 2.03m
Shipley Gate on the River Erewash — 4.5 km away, highest on record 3.25m
Belper on the Coppice Brook — 6.1 km away, highest on record 1.44m

481 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (73 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):

Langley Mill October 2023 (2023) — about 2.7 km from the centre
Lower Trent - 10 Nov 2000 (2000) — about 30.2 km from the centre
20000614 (2000) — about 5 km from the centre
Erewash 26th Feb 1977 (1977) — about 4.6 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

DE74 DE73 DE72 DE65 DE56 DE55 DE45 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.