Does NE21 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE21 district carry real flood risk: 17 of its 47 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE21 postcode district covers Blaydon, Ryton, Crookhill and Stella, Crawcrook and Greenside, Winlaton and High Spen, close to Rowlands Gill, Woolsington, Gosforth, and surrounding villages in parts of Tyne and Wear and County Durham.

47 postcodes in the NE21 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 17 high, 14 medium, 16 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 NE21 postcodes are at risk?

NE21 4FD up to High NE21 4FE up to High NE21 4FG up to High NE21 4FH up to High NE21 4FJ up to High NE21 4FL up to High NE21 4FN up to High NE21 5LL up to High NE21 5PF up to High NE21 5PH up to High NE21 5RU up to High NE21 5RY up to High NE21 5RZ up to High NE21 5TB up to High NE21 5TE up to High NE21 5TL up to High NE21 6RS up to High NE21 4FF up to Medium NE21 4FQ up to Medium NE21 5NP up to Medium NE21 5PB up to Medium NE21 5SS up to Medium NE21 5TF up to Medium NE21 5TG up to Medium NE21 5TR up to Medium NE21 6JJ up to Medium NE21 6JL up to Medium NE21 6JN up to Medium NE21 6JR up to Medium NE21 6LF up to Medium NE21 6RB up to Medium NE21 4FP up to Low NE21 4FR up to Low NE21 4FS up to Low NE21 4FT up to Low NE21 4JB up to Low NE21 4JJ up to Low NE21 4NT up to Low NE21 4SD up to Low NE21 4SQ up to Low NE21 4TE up to Low NE21 5BT up to Low NE21 5BY up to Low NE21 5DD up to Low NE21 5FG up to Low NE21 5SA up to Low NE21 5SZ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NE21

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

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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.