Does NE17 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE17 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 22 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE17 postcode district covers Chopwell and Rowlands Gill, Derwent & Pont Valley, close to Blackhall Mill, Rowlands Gill, Stocksfield Ridley Mill, and surrounding villages in parts of County Durham and Northumberland.

22 postcodes in the NE17 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 16 medium, 3 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 NE17 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near NE17

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

Blackhall Mill on the River Derwent — 0.1 km away, highest on record 2.57m
Rowlands Gill on the River Derwent — 5 km away, highest on record 2.37m
Stocksfield Ridley Mill on the Stocksfield Burn — 7.4 km away, highest on record 1.75m
Tanfield on the River Team — 7.6 km away, highest on record 2.78m

42 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 19 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Storm Christoph, Ebchester, Jan 2021 (2021) — about 2.3 km from the centre
River Derwent Rural (2008) — about 1 km from the centre
Derwent Street, Blackhall Mill, County Durham (2008) — about 0.1 km from the centre
Blackhall Mill (River Derwent) (2008) — about 0.1 km from the centre

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 NE18 NE15 NE19 NE20 NE13 NE21 NE12

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.