Does DH9 flood?

Yes — parts of the DH9 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 10 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The DH9 postcode district covers Stanley, Pelton, Craghead & South Moor, Annfield Plain & Tanfield, close to Tanfield, Rowlands Gill, Lamesley, and surrounding villages in parts of County Durham and Tyne and Wear.

10 postcodes in the DH9 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 3 medium, 4 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 DH9 postcodes are at risk?

DH9 0RX up to High DH9 0TG up to High DH9 9UY up to High DH9 0SB up to Medium DH9 0YB up to Medium DH9 9UU up to Medium DH9 0RR up to Low DH9 7EQ up to Low DH9 7EZ up to Low DH9 9QE up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near DH9

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

Tanfield on the River Team — 1.7 km away, highest on record 2.78m
Rowlands Gill on the River Derwent — 5.9 km away, highest on record 2.37m
Team Valley on the River Team — 6.5 km away, highest on record 1.74m
Lanchester Front Street on the Smallhope Burn — 7.2 km away, highest on record 2.25m

9 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (9 at warning level or above), most recently 8 April 2024. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

River Derwent Rural (2008) — about 8.4 km from the centre
30,LENIN TERRACE,SOUTH STANLEY,STANLEY, (2007) — about 2 km from the centre
Stanley (2007) — about 1.6 km from the centre
River Wear (1995) — about 14.8 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

DH8 DH7 DH6 DH5 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.