Does DH5 flood?

Yes — parts of the DH5 district carry real flood risk: 6 of its 18 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The DH5 postcode district covers Hetton, Copt Hill, close to Houghton Le Spring, Chester-Le-Street, Durham, and surrounding villages in parts of County Durham and Tyne and Wear.

18 postcodes in the DH5 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 6 high, 7 medium, 5 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 DH5 postcodes are at risk?

DH5 0RH up to High DH5 9DN up to High DH5 9JN up to High DH5 9JW up to High DH5 9NN up to High DH5 9NR up to High DH5 8NG up to Medium DH5 8NL up to Medium DH5 8NR up to Medium DH5 8NS up to Medium DH5 8NT up to Medium DH5 9NW up to Medium DH5 9PD up to Medium DH5 9HH up to Low DH5 9JG up to Low DH5 9JS up to Low DH5 9LG up to Low DH5 9NP up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near DH5

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

Houghton Le Spring on the Moors Burn — 2.3 km away, highest on record 1.77m
Chester-Le-Street on the River Wear — 7 km away, highest on record 4.06m
Durham New Elvet Bridge on the River Wear — 8.9 km away, highest on record 3.83m
Burn Hall on the River Browney — 12.7 km away, highest on record 2.09m

242 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 17 July 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Hetton-Le-Hole (2002) — about 1.6 km from the centre
Sedgeletch (1975) — about 3.2 km from the centre
Sedgeletch (1965) — about 3.1 km from the centre
Houghton-le-Spring (1900) — about 2.8 km from the centre

Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

DH4 DH6 DH3 DH7 DH2 DH8 DH1 DH9

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.