Does DH6 flood?

Yes — parts of the DH6 district carry real flood risk: 12 of its 20 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The DH6 postcode district covers Bowburn & Coxhoe, Easington & Shotton, Pittington & Sherburn, Thornley & Wheatley Hill, close to Durham, Sunderland Bridge, Houghton Le Spring, and surrounding villages in parts of County Durham and Tyne and Wear.

20 postcodes in the DH6 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 12 high, 3 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 DH6 postcodes are at risk?

DH6 1AH up to High DH6 1BQ up to High DH6 1LZ up to High DH6 1NR up to High DH6 2QB up to High DH6 3QN up to High DH6 4EL up to High DH6 4ER up to High DH6 4NE up to High DH6 5FU up to High DH6 5HB up to High DH6 5JL up to High DH6 1LQ up to Medium DH6 1NJ up to Medium DH6 5JB up to Medium DH6 1BP up to Low DH6 2PZ up to Low DH6 4BA up to Low DH6 5JN up to Low DH6 5JS up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near DH6

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

Durham New Elvet Bridge on the River Wear — 5.9 km away, highest on record 3.83m
Sunderland Bridge on the River Wear — 6.2 km away, highest on record 3.71m
Burn Hall on the River Browney — 6.6 km away, highest on record 2.09m
Houghton Le Spring on the Moors Burn — 10.6 km away, highest on record 1.77m

61 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (15 at warning level or above), most recently 19 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

COMMUNITY CENTRE,DURHAM ROAD,BOWBURN,DURHAM,NEAR A (2007) — about 2.4 km from the centre
BTM,BURNS STREET,BOWBURN,DURHAM, (2007) — about 2.4 km from the centre
2,KIRBYS DRIVE,BOWBURN,DURHAM,NEAR A177 ROAD (2007) — about 1.6 km from the centre
River Wear (1995) — about 14.5 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

DH5 DH7 DH4 DH8 DH3 DH9 DH2 DH1

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.