Does NE20 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE20 district carry real flood risk: 17 of its 51 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE20 postcode district sits close to Ponteland, Woolsington, Stamfordham and surrounding villages in parts of Northumberland and North East.

51 postcodes in the NE20 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 17 high, 3 medium, 31 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 NE20 postcodes are at risk?

NE20 0AE up to High NE20 0BQ up to High NE20 0HF up to High NE20 0JD up to High NE20 0JT up to High NE20 0RP up to High NE20 9BA up to High NE20 9BB up to High NE20 9BD up to High NE20 9ED up to High NE20 9EF up to High NE20 9EG up to High NE20 9SU up to High NE20 9TA up to High NE20 9TP up to High NE20 9UB up to High NE20 9UD up to High NE20 0AH up to Medium NE20 9SX up to Medium NE20 9UY up to Medium NE20 0AJ up to Low NE20 0AS up to Low NE20 0DP up to Low NE20 0EA up to Low NE20 0ET up to Low NE20 0FE up to Low NE20 0TF up to Low NE20 9AB up to Low NE20 9AY up to Low NE20 9AZ up to Low NE20 9BE up to Low NE20 9EE up to Low NE20 9EQ up to Low NE20 9EZ up to Low NE20 9HN up to Low NE20 9HU up to Low NE20 9NH up to Low NE20 9NL up to Low NE20 9NR up to Low NE20 9NZ up to Low NE20 9PU up to Low NE20 9SS up to Low NE20 9UZ up to Low NE20 9XA up to Low NE20 9XD up to Low NE20 9XL up to Low NE20 9XN up to Low NE20 9XP up to Low NE20 9XQ up to Low NE20 9XR up to Low NE20 9XT up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NE20

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

44 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (4 at warning level or above), most recently 12 February 2026. 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

NE19 NE21 NE18 NE22 NE17 NE23 NE16 NE24

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.