Does S44 flood?

Yes — parts of the S44 district carry real flood risk: 6 of its 9 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The S44 postcode district covers Ault Hucknall, Sutton, Bolsover North & Shuttlewood, Staveley South, close to Chesterfield Calow Lane, Woodthorpe, Chesterfield Avenue Washlands, and surrounding villages in parts of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.

9 postcodes in the S44 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 6 high, 2 medium, 1 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 S44 postcodes are at risk?

S44 5JF up to High S44 5QJ up to High S44 5RN up to High S44 5UY up to High S44 6AE up to High S44 6BB up to High S44 5NY up to Medium S44 6QE up to Medium S44 5RW up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near S44

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

Chesterfield Calow Lane on the Calow Brook — 4.9 km away, highest on record 1.45m
Staveley on the River Doe Lea — 5.9 km away, highest on record 2.68m
Hady Hill on the River Rother — 6.5 km away, highest on record 4.20m
Chesterfield St Augustines on the River Rother — 6.7 km away, highest on record 3.10m

119 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (70 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 3 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 72.2 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 65.3 km from the centre
2019 November Flood Incident (2019) — about 38.4 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

S43 S45 S42 S41 S40 S36 S35 S33

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.