Does NE37 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE37 district carry real flood risk: 1 of its 3 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE37 postcode district covers Washington North, close to Lamesley, Chester-Le-Street, Houghton Le Spring, and surrounding villages in parts of Tyne and Wear and North East.

3 postcodes in the NE37 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 high, 2 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 NE37 postcodes are at risk?

NE37 3LW up to High NE37 3HL up to Low NE37 3LN up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NE37

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

Team Valley on the River Team — 6.5 km away, highest on record 1.74m
Chester-Le-Street on the River Wear — 8.3 km away, highest on record 4.06m
Houghton Le Spring on the Moors Burn — 9.1 km away, highest on record 1.77m
Crag Hall on the Ouse Burn — 10.6 km away, highest on record 1.79m

231 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (85 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):

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

NE36 NE38 NE35 NE39 NE34 NE40 NE33 NE41

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.