Does DY7 flood?

Yes — parts of the DY7 district carry real flood risk: 8 of its 25 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The DY7 postcode district covers Kinver & Enville, close to Stourton, Stourbridge, Swindon, and surrounding villages in parts of Worcestershire and West Midlands.

25 postcodes in the DY7 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 8 high, 8 medium, 9 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 DY7 postcodes are at risk?

DY7 5AU up to High DY7 6ET up to High DY7 6LB up to High DY7 6LG up to High DY7 6LH up to High DY7 6LS up to High DY7 6NR up to High DY7 6NU up to High DY7 5AN up to Medium DY7 5BA up to Medium DY7 5QT up to Medium DY7 6HE up to Medium DY7 6HF up to Medium DY7 6HG up to Medium DY7 6LE up to Medium DY7 6NS up to Medium DY7 5AJ up to Low DY7 5AT up to Low DY7 5HL up to Low DY7 6ER up to Low DY7 6HB up to Low DY7 6HD up to Low DY7 6HL up to Low DY7 6JT up to Low DY7 6LA up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near DY7

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

Stourton on the River Stour — 1 km away, highest on record 3.22m
Stourbridge on the River Stour — 5.3 km away, highest on record 2.26m
Hurcott Perriford Lane — 6.3 km away
Swindon on the Smestow Brook — 6.4 km away, highest on record 3.06m

358 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (37 at warning level or above), most recently 28 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Autumn 2000 (Upper Severn) (2000) — about 11.1 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

DY6 DY8 DY5 DY9 DY10 DY4 DY11 DY3

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.