Does NR6 flood?

Yes — parts of the NR6 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 14 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NR6 postcode district covers Wensum, Hellesdon North West and surrounding villages in Norfolk.

14 postcodes in the NR6 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 7 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 NR6 postcodes are at risk?

NR6 5AY up to High NR6 5BA up to High NR6 5DB up to High NR6 5DL up to High NR6 5AF up to Medium NR6 5AN up to Medium NR6 5EE up to Medium NR6 5EG up to Medium NR6 5EQ up to Medium NR6 5ES up to Medium NR6 5FP up to Medium NR6 5DJ up to Low NR6 5EJ up to Low NR6 5QN up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NR6

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

Colney on the River Yare — 2.8 km away, highest on record 1.58m
COLNEY FGS — 2.8 km away
Costessey Mill on the River Wensum — 3.1 km away, highest on record 0.59m
Spixworth on the Spixworth Beck — 7.2 km away, highest on record 1.17m

117 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (34 at warning level or above), most recently 8 December 2024. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

2013 Flood Outline (2013) — about 37.1 km from the centre
1993 Fluival Flood Outline (1993) — about 12.2 km from the centre
1968 September Flood Outline (1968) — about 73.1 km from the centre
1953 Coast Flood Outline Norfolk (1953) — about 32 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

NR5 NR7 NR4 NR8 NR3 NR9 NR10 NR2

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.