Does NE33 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE33 district carry real flood risk: 5 of its 13 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE33 postcode district covers Beacon and Bents, Simonside and Rekendyke, close to Cullercoats, Gosforth, Lamesley, and surrounding villages in parts of Tyne and Wear and North East.

13 postcodes in the NE33 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 5 high, 3 medium, 5 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 NE33 postcodes are at risk?

NE33 1JR up to High NE33 1LH up to High NE33 1LQ up to High NE33 2LA up to High NE33 5SP up to High NE33 1EQ up to Medium NE33 1EX up to Medium NE33 5SW up to Medium NE33 1ES up to Low NE33 1RS up to Low NE33 1RZ up to Low NE33 2JZ up to Low NE33 2LD up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NE33

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

Crag Hall on the Ouse Burn — 10.8 km away, highest on record 1.79m
Gosforth on the Ouse Burn — 11.7 km away, highest on record 2.20m
Team Valley on the River Team — 14 km away, highest on record 1.74m
Woolsington on the Ouse Burn — 17 km away, highest on record 1.70m

222 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 km from the centre
King Edwards Bay (2013) — about 2.8 km from the centre
Prior's Haven (2013) — about 2.5 km from the centre
River Don 2000 (2000) — about 4.7 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

NE32 NE34 NE31 NE35 NE30 NE36 NE29 NE37

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.