Does S12 flood?

Yes — parts of the S12 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 5 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The S12 postcode district covers Richmond, Ridgeway & Marsh Lane, Birley, Park and Arbourthorne, close to Sheffield Meersbrook, Sheffield Carr Brook Screen, Sheffield, and surrounding villages in parts of South Yorkshire and Derbyshire.

5 postcodes in the S12 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 1 medium. 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 S12 postcodes are at risk?

S12 2AX up to High S12 2EJ up to High S12 2ES up to High S12 3YF up to High S12 3YD up to Medium

Rivers and flooding history near S12

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

Sheffield Meersbrook on the Meers Brook — 3.5 km away, highest on record 1.07m
Sheffield Centenary Works on the River Sheaf — 4.9 km away, highest on record 1.85m
Woodhouse Mill Regulator on the River Rother — 5 km away, highest on record 5.82m
Highfield on the River Sheaf — 5 km away, highest on record 3.26m

286 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (112 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):

October 2023 - Storm Babet - Recorded Flood Outline (2023) — about 2.5 km from the centre
2022 February Flood Incident -Storm Dudley, Eunice and Franklin (2022) — about 29.8 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 55.4 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

S11 S13 S10 S14 S9 S8 S17 S7

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.