Does NE32 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE32 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 4 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE32 postcode district covers Fellgate and Hedworth, Bede, Primrose, close to Cullercoats, Gosforth, Lamesley, and surrounding villages in parts of Tyne and Wear and County Durham.

4 postcodes in the NE32 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 1 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 NE32 postcodes are at risk?

NE32 4EE up to High NE32 4EL up to High NE32 4EQ up to High NE32 5YS up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NE32

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

Crag Hall on the Ouse Burn — 9.2 km away, highest on record 1.79m
Team Valley on the River Team — 9.5 km away, highest on record 1.74m
Gosforth on the Ouse Burn — 10.7 km away, highest on record 2.20m
Chester-Le-Street on the River Wear — 12.8 km away, highest on record 4.06m

298 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (152 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):

North and South Shields (2013) — about 3.4 km from the centre
River Don, July 2009 (2009) — about 1.7 km from the centre
River Don 2000 (2000) — about 0.8 km from the centre
South Shields (1900) — about 4.4 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

NE31 NE33 NE30 NE34 NE29 NE35 NE28 NE36

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.