Does DN39 flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in DN39: none of its 4 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The DN39 postcode district covers Ferry, close to Grimsby, Barton-Upon-Humber, Thorngumbald Pumping Station, and surrounding villages in parts of East Riding of Yorkshire and North East Lincolnshire.

4 postcodes in the DN39 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 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 DN39 postcodes are at risk?

DN39 6TJ up to Low DN39 6TT up to Low DN39 6TU up to Low DN39 6TX up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near DN39

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

Barton on Humber on the Barton Haven — 10 km away, highest on record 0.97m
Salt end on the Burstwick Drain — 12.5 km away, highest on record 2.67m
East Hull Hedon Road on the Holderness Drain — 12.8 km away, highest on record 1.60m
Hull High Flaggs, Lincoln Street on the River Hull — 13.1 km away, highest on record 1.08m

99 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (19 at warning level or above), most recently 14 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 44.6 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Ciara (2020) — about 54.7 km from the centre
2019 November Flood Incident (2019) — about 60.5 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

DN40 DN37 DN41 DN36 DN35 DN34 DN32 DN31

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.