Does NE45 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE45 district carry real flood risk: 9 of its 11 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE45 postcode district covers Corbridge, close to Riding Mill, Hexham, Bywell, and surrounding villages in Northumberland.

11 postcodes in the NE45 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 9 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 NE45 postcodes are at risk?

NE45 5AL up to High NE45 5AN up to High NE45 5AR up to High NE45 5AX up to High NE45 5AY up to High NE45 5AZ up to High NE45 5BA up to High NE45 5LT up to High NE45 5QT up to High NE45 5HF up to Low NE45 5NU up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NE45

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

Corbridge on the River Tyne — 0.4 km away, highest on record 5.76m
Riding Mill on the River Tyne — 4.4 km away, highest on record 5.99m
Hexham on the River Tyne — 4.9 km away, highest on record 34.84m
Hexham Tanners Row Downstream on the Cockshaw Burn — 5.5 km away, highest on record 1.00m

58 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (19 at warning level or above), most recently 13 November 2025. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Strom Ciara - Fluvial - Wellbank - Ouline drawn from images (2020) — about 0.4 km from the centre
Storm Eva in Corbridge 26 December 2015 (2015) — about 0.4 km from the centre
Riding Mill 5-6 Dec 2015 (2015) — about 4 km from the centre
Storm Desmond in Corbridge 5-6 December 2015 (2015) — about 0.6 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

NE44 NE46 NE43 NE47 NE42 NE48 NE41 NE49

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.