Does S13 flood?

Parts of the S13 district carry moderate flood risk: 3 of its 12 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's Medium likelihood band. The S13 postcode district covers Woodhouse, Aughton & Swallownest, Richmond, close to Woodhouse Mill Regulator, Catcliffe, Rotherham, and surrounding villages in parts of South Yorkshire and Derbyshire.

12 postcodes in the S13 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 medium, 4 low, 5 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 S13 postcodes are at risk?

S13 8EG up to Medium S13 9AD up to Medium S13 9ZD up to Medium S13 7PQ up to Low S13 9WD up to Low S13 9WG up to Low S13 9WH up to Low S13 9WF up to Very low S13 9WT up to Very low S13 9WU up to Very low S13 9XD up to Very low S13 9XF up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near S13

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

Woodhouse Mill Regulator on the River Rother — 0.2 km away, highest on record 5.82m
Woodhouse Mill on the River Rother — 0.2 km away, highest on record 4.46m
Catcliffe on the River Rother — 2.9 km away, highest on record 30.53m
Catcliffe Drain on the Catcliffe Drain — 2.9 km away, highest on record 30.76m

263 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (85 at warning level or above), most recently 30 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 2.3 km from the centre
2022 February Flood Incident -Storm Dudley, Eunice and Franklin (2022) — about 25.3 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

S12 S14 S11 S10 S17 S9 S18 S8

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.