Does DN4 flood?

Yes — parts of the DN4 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 52 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The DN4 postcode district covers Hexthorpe & Balby North, Finningley, Balby South, Tickhill & Wadsworth, close to Bentley, Doncaster Strawberry Island, Sprotbrough, and surrounding villages in parts of South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.

52 postcodes in the DN4 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 6 medium, 42 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 DN4 postcodes are at risk?

DN4 0DA up to High DN4 0FX up to High DN4 0JA up to High DN4 7FS up to High DN4 0DX up to Medium DN4 0FW up to Medium DN4 0HW up to Medium DN4 0HZ up to Medium DN4 0JB up to Medium DN4 0JH up to Medium DN4 0BX up to Low DN4 0FL up to Low DN4 0FN up to Low DN4 0GL up to Low DN4 0GN up to Low DN4 0GP up to Low DN4 0RA up to Low DN4 5DF up to Low DN4 5FB up to Low DN4 5HX up to Low DN4 5HY up to Low DN4 5HZ up to Low DN4 5JD up to Low DN4 5JH up to Low DN4 5JJ up to Low DN4 5JP up to Low DN4 5JR up to Low DN4 5JS up to Low DN4 5PD up to Low DN4 7FR up to Low DN4 7FT up to Low DN4 7FY up to Low DN4 7FZ up to Low DN4 7GA up to Low DN4 8AJ up to Low DN4 8AL up to Low DN4 8AN up to Low DN4 8AP up to Low DN4 8AW up to Low DN4 8BA up to Low DN4 8BB up to Low DN4 8BE up to Low DN4 8BJ up to Low DN4 8BL up to Low DN4 8DB up to Low DN4 8DE up to Low DN4 8DF up to Low DN4 8DP up to Low DN4 8FF up to Low DN4 8FL up to Low DN4 8FU up to Low DN4 8WA up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near DN4

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

Doncaster on the River Don — 2.5 km away, highest on record 6.31m
Doncaster Strawberry Island Temp on the Dun Navigation Canal — 3.1 km away, highest on record 7.73m
Sprotbrough on the River Don — 3.8 km away, highest on record 4.72m
Bentley Ings Screen on the Fowler Bridge Drain — 3.9 km away, highest on record 4.46m

116 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (46 at warning level or above), most recently 6 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

2022 February Flood Incident -Storm Dudley, Eunice and Franklin (2022) — about 5.4 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 20.5 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 30.1 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

DN3 DN5 DN2 DN6 DN1 DN7 DN8 DN9

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.