Does NE28 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE28 district carry real flood risk: 10 of its 34 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE28 postcode district covers Wallsend North, Wallsend Central, Howdon, Chirton & Percy Main, close to Gosforth, Cullercoats, Lamesley, and surrounding villages in parts of Tyne and Wear and North East.

34 postcodes in the NE28 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 10 high, 5 medium, 19 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 NE28 postcodes are at risk?

NE28 0PB up to High NE28 6HA up to High NE28 6QT up to High NE28 6UZ up to High NE28 8AG up to High NE28 8DA up to High NE28 8NH up to High NE28 8NJ up to High NE28 8NN up to High NE28 8PW up to High NE28 6HL up to Medium NE28 6UE up to Medium NE28 8NL up to Medium NE28 8NP up to Medium NE28 9HH up to Medium NE28 6EQ up to Low NE28 6QB up to Low NE28 6SG up to Low NE28 6TT up to Low NE28 6UL up to Low NE28 8AH up to Low NE28 8DE up to Low NE28 8DG up to Low NE28 8DX up to Low NE28 8DY up to Low NE28 8DZ up to Low NE28 8EA up to Low NE28 8EB up to Low NE28 8EE up to Low NE28 8EJ up to Low NE28 8EL up to Low NE28 8EP up to Low NE28 8ER up to Low NE28 8NW up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NE28

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

168 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (78 at warning level or above), most recently 18 April 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

NE27 NE29 NE26 NE30 NE25 NE31 NE24 NE32

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.