Does NE8 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE8 district carry real flood risk: 10 of its 14 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE8 postcode district covers Dunston and Teams, Bridges, close to Lamesley, Gosforth, Rowlands Gill, and surrounding villages in parts of Tyne and Wear and County Durham.

14 postcodes in the NE8 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 10 high, 1 medium, 3 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 NE8 postcodes are at risk?

NE8 2AR up to High NE8 2BE up to High NE8 2BJ up to High NE8 2EX up to High NE8 2EY up to High NE8 2FB up to High NE8 2NX up to High NE8 2QX up to High NE8 2RA up to High NE8 2RG up to High NE8 2RD up to Medium NE8 2HP up to Low NE8 2QU up to Low NE8 2TX up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NE8

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

Team Valley on the River Team — 4.1 km away, highest on record 1.74m
Crag Hall on the Ouse Burn — 5.1 km away, highest on record 1.79m
Gosforth on the Ouse Burn — 6.7 km away, highest on record 2.20m
Rowlands Gill on the River Derwent — 8.6 km away, highest on record 2.37m

108 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (12 at warning level or above), most recently 28 September 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Wallsend Riverside (2013) — about 4.4 km from the centre
St Omers Haugh, Newcastle Quayside, North Shields (2013) — about 2.2 km from the centre
August 2013 Flooding (2013) — about 2.9 km from the centre
Team Valley surface water flooding 25/09/2012 (2012) — about 1.3 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

NE10 NE6 NE11 NE12 NE13 NE3 NE2 NE1

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.