Does DY5 flood?

Yes — parts of the DY5 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 7 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The DY5 postcode district covers Quarry Bank & Dudley Wood, Lye & Stourbridge North, Amblecote, Brockmoor & Pensnett, close to Stourbridge, Halesowen, Stourton, and surrounding villages in parts of West Midlands and Worcestershire.

7 postcodes in the DY5 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high, 1 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 DY5 postcodes are at risk?

DY5 2AH up to High DY5 4UG up to High DY5 2PH up to Medium DY5 2LD up to Low DY5 2LX up to Low DY5 3RQ up to Low DY5 3YU up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near DY5

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

Stourbridge on the River Stour — 2.1 km away, highest on record 2.26m
Halesowen on the River Stour — 4.3 km away, highest on record 2.72m
Stourton on the River Stour — 5.9 km away, highest on record 3.22m
Halesowen Dogkennel Lane on the River Stour — 6 km away, highest on record 1.47m

253 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (71 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

DY4 DY6 DY3 DY7 DY2 DY8 DY9 DY10

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.