Does NE66 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE66 district carry real flood risk: 26 of its 64 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE66 postcode district covers Longhoughton, Wooler, Alnwick Castle, Rothbury, close to Warkworth, and surrounding villages in Northumberland.

64 postcodes in the NE66 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 26 high, 12 medium, 26 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 NE66 postcodes are at risk?

NE66 1FJ up to High NE66 2AQ up to High NE66 2JX up to High NE66 2QP up to High NE66 2RH up to High NE66 2RQ up to High NE66 2SD up to High NE66 3AL up to High NE66 3BE up to High NE66 3BP up to High NE66 3DF up to High NE66 3DR up to High NE66 3EL up to High NE66 3HJ up to High NE66 3LL up to High NE66 3NJ up to High NE66 3QL up to High NE66 3XQ up to High NE66 4ED up to High NE66 4HS up to High NE66 4HT up to High NE66 4LL up to High NE66 4LT up to High NE66 4LZ up to High NE66 5NH up to High NE66 5PX up to High NE66 3AU up to Medium NE66 3DP up to Medium NE66 3JF up to Medium NE66 3PU up to Medium NE66 3RL up to Medium NE66 4AA up to Medium NE66 4PS up to Medium NE66 4SJ up to Medium NE66 4SQ up to Medium NE66 4TP up to Medium NE66 4UU up to Medium NE66 5NN up to Medium NE66 2BL up to Low NE66 2BR up to Low NE66 2EH up to Low NE66 2HA up to Low NE66 2JH up to Low NE66 2SZ up to Low NE66 3BH up to Low NE66 3BU up to Low NE66 3HA up to Low NE66 3PG up to Low NE66 3PX up to Low NE66 3RT up to Low NE66 4HA up to Low NE66 4HL up to Low NE66 4HN up to Low NE66 4HW up to Low NE66 4HX up to Low NE66 4JW up to Low NE66 4LP up to Low NE66 4LU up to Low NE66 4PL up to Low NE66 4PW up to Low NE66 4RL up to Low NE66 4TJ up to Low NE66 4XX up to Low NE66 5NJ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NE66

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

52 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006, most recently 11 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

NE65 NE67 NE64 NE68 NE63 NE62 NE70 NE61

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.