Does S10 flood?

Yes — parts of the S10 district carry real flood risk: 22 of its 24 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The S10 postcode district covers Fulwood, Broomhill and Sharrow Vale, close to Sheffield, Loxley, Dore, and surrounding villages in parts of South Yorkshire and Derbyshire.

24 postcodes in the S10 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 22 high, 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 S10 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near S10

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

Sheffield Oakbrook Road on the Porter Brook — 1.3 km away, highest on record 1.15m
Loxley Rowell Bridge on the River Loxley — 3.7 km away, highest on record 1.10m
Sheffield Centenary Works on the River Sheaf — 4.3 km away, highest on record 1.85m
Dore Twenty Well Lane on the River Sheaf — 4.9 km away, highest on record 2.25m

124 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (61 at warning level or above), most recently 27 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

2022 February Flood Incident -Storm Dudley, Eunice and Franklin (2022) — about 17.4 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 59.7 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 58 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Ciara (2020) — about 55 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

S11 S9 S12 S8 S13 S7 S14 S6

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.