Does NN2 flood?

Yes — parts of the NN2 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 7 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NN2 postcode district covers Kingsley & Semilong, Moulton, close to Northampton, Kingsthorpe, Duston, and surrounding villages in West Northamptonshire.

7 postcodes in the NN2 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 1 medium, 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 NN2 postcodes are at risk?

NN2 6LS up to High NN2 6NE up to High NN2 6QA up to High NN2 8GR up to High NN2 6DA up to Medium NN2 6BN up to Low NN2 6LY up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NN2

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

St Andrews Bypass on the River Nene — 0.9 km away, highest on record 2.78m
ST ANDREWS MILL BYPASS GS NORTHAMPTON — 1.2 km away
St Andrews Mill on the River Nene — 1.3 km away, highest on record 2.54m
GELDHARTS MILL GS NORTHAMPTON — 2 km away

137 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (86 at warning level or above), most recently 7 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

LNA_2004_January_Dallington Brook_Northampton (2004) — about 1.5 km from the centre
LNA_1998_April_River Nene_d/s Northampton (1998) — about 25.5 km from the centre
LNA_1998_April_River Nene_Brampton Branch (1998) — about 3 km from the centre
LNA_1998_April_River Nene_u/s Northampton (1998) — about 8.2 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

NN1 NN3 NN4 NN5 NN6 NN7 NN8 NN9

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.