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Does DH7 flood?

Yes — parts of the DH7 district carry real flood risk: 22 of its 49 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The DH7 postcode district covers Deerness, Willington & Hunwick, Langley & Esh, close to Lanchester, Crook West Bridge Street, Durham, and surrounding villages in County Durham.

49 postcodes in the DH7 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 22 high, 10 medium, 16 low, 1 very 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 DH7 postcodes are at risk?

DH7 0ER up to High DH7 0ES up to High DH7 0ET up to High DH7 0EU up to High DH7 0EX up to High DH7 0HP up to High DH7 0JX up to High DH7 0LA up to High DH7 0LE up to High DH7 0LH up to High DH7 8DE up to High DH7 8DH up to High DH7 8DT up to High DH7 8DU up to High DH7 9AR up to High DH7 9ET up to High DH7 9LE up to High DH7 9LQ up to High DH7 9PT up to High DH7 9PX up to High DH7 9TP up to High DH7 9TR up to High DH7 0HR up to Medium DH7 0JB up to Medium DH7 0JE up to Medium DH7 0LG up to Medium DH7 0LS up to Medium DH7 0NN up to Medium DH7 0NS up to Medium DH7 0NW up to Medium DH7 0RE up to Medium DH7 0RU up to Medium DH7 0JT up to Low DH7 0LJ up to Low DH7 0NT up to Low DH7 0RB up to Low DH7 0RX up to Low DH7 0SZ up to Low DH7 7AR up to Low DH7 7BN up to Low DH7 8DL up to Low DH7 8HF up to Low DH7 8JZ up to Low DH7 9AN up to Low DH7 9BD up to Low DH7 9ED up to Low DH7 9LG up to Low DH7 9QE up to Low DH7 7JP up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near DH7

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

49 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (3 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):

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

🏠 Buying or renting in DH7? The full property flood-risk report covers any postcode here — the official likelihood band, every recorded flood nearby with distances, warning history year by year, how the local rivers behave, and an insurance outlook, print-ready for £19. See what's in the report →

Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

DH6 DH8 DH5 DH9 DH4 DH3 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.