Does NE15 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE15 district carry real flood risk: 5 of its 9 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE15 postcode district covers Callerton & Throckley, Lemington, Benwell & Scotswood, close to Woolsington, Rowlands Gill, Ponteland, and surrounding villages in parts of Tyne and Wear and County Durham.

9 postcodes in the NE15 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 5 high, 3 low, 1 very 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 NE15 postcodes are at risk?

NE15 6XA up to High NE15 8LS up to High NE15 8ND up to High NE15 8NL up to High NE15 8NR up to High NE15 8LN up to Low NE15 8SG up to Low NE15 9RT up to Low NE15 0HT up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near NE15

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

33 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (13 at warning level or above), most recently 9 April 2024. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

NE16 NE13 NE17 NE12 NE18 NE11 NE19 NE10

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.