Does NE49 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE49 district carry real flood risk: 11 of its 27 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE49 postcode district covers Haltwhistle, Haydon & Hadrian, close to Rowfoot, Allendale Town, and surrounding villages in Northumberland.

27 postcodes in the NE49 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 11 high, 5 medium, 11 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 NE49 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near NE49

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

Haltwhistle on the River Tyne — 0.2 km away, highest on record 3.45m
Featherstone on the River South Tyne — 4.2 km away, highest on record 2.72m
Hindley Wrae Ford on the River West Allen — 10.2 km away, highest on record 2.12m
Haydon Bridge Brigwood on the River South Tyne — 13.7 km away, highest on record 3.52m

57 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (2 at warning level or above), most recently 24 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Storm Desmond in Haltwhistle 5-6 December 2015 (2015) — about 0.5 km from the centre
Haltwhistle in Aug 2012 (2012) — about 1 km from the centre
Haltwhistle in June 2012 - Fluvial and SW (2012) — about 1 km from the centre
Haltwhistle Burn (2007) — about 1 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

NE48 NE47 NE46 NE45 NE44 NE43 NE42 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.