Does NE42 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE42 district carry real flood risk: 11 of its 25 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE42 postcode district covers Prudhoe North & Wylam, Stocksfield & Bywell, close to Stocksfield Ridley Mill, Bywell, Riding Mill, and surrounding villages in parts of Northumberland and County Durham.

25 postcodes in the NE42 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 11 high, 2 medium, 11 low, 1 very 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 NE42 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near NE42

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

Stocksfield Ridley Mill on the Stocksfield Burn — 4.5 km away, highest on record 1.75m
Bywell on the River Tyne — 5.5 km away, highest on record 6.96m
Riding Mill on the River Tyne — 6.5 km away, highest on record 5.99m
Blackhall Mill on the River Derwent — 7.6 km away, highest on record 2.57m

77 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (9 at warning level or above), most recently 19 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

09/02/2020 Storm Ciara - Ovingham - Simple marker outline as extent not know (2020) — about 0.6 km from the centre
Ovington in 2016 (2016) — about 2.3 km from the centre
Ovingham in 2016 (2016) — about 0.5 km from the centre
Storm Frank in Ovingham 4-7 January 2016 (2016) — about 0.7 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

NE41 NE43 NE40 NE44 NE39 NE45 NE38 NE46

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.