Does NG1 flood?

Parts of the NG1 district carry moderate flood risk: 13 of its 32 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's Medium likelihood band. The NG1 postcode district covers Castle, close to Lenton, West Bridgford, Nottingham, and surrounding villages in parts of Nottinghamshire and East Midlands.

32 postcodes in the NG1 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 13 medium, 18 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 NG1 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near NG1

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

Lenton on the River Leen — 2.6 km away, highest on record 1.62m
Clifton Bridge on the River Trent — 3.2 km away, highest on record 5.39m
Day Brook on the Day Brook — 4.3 km away, highest on record 1.36m
Colwick on the River Trent — 4.5 km away, highest on record 5.50m

674 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (116 at warning level or above), most recently 28 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Beeston to West Bridgford January 2024 (2024) — about 2.9 km from the centre
Lower Trent - 10 Nov 2000 (2000) — about 17.9 km from the centre
Lower Trent 8 Nov 2000 (2000) — about 2.8 km from the centre
Trent 8th November 2000 (2000) — about 20.2 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

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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.