Does DY3 flood?

Yes — parts of the DY3 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 10 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The DY3 postcode district covers Himley & Swindon, Gornal, close to Swindon, Stourton, Stourbridge, and surrounding villages in parts of West Midlands and Staffordshire.

10 postcodes in the DY3 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 DY3 postcodes are at risk?

DY3 4DF up to High DY3 4PG up to High DY3 4PL up to High DY3 2RP up to Medium DY3 4DA up to Medium DY3 4LG up to Medium DY3 2UP up to Low DY3 2UW up to Low DY3 3ES up to Low DY3 4NP up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near DY3

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

Swindon on the Smestow Brook — 2.6 km away, highest on record 3.06m
Stourton on the River Stour — 6.9 km away, highest on record 3.22m
Stourbridge on the River Stour — 6.9 km away, highest on record 2.26m
Wightwick on the Smestow Brook — 7.3 km away, highest on record 1.33m

207 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (25 at warning level or above), most recently 28 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

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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.