Does S61 flood?

Yes — parts of the S61 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 6 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The S61 postcode district covers Shiregreen and Brightside, Keppel, Greasbrough, close to Rotherham, Sheffield, Tinsley, and surrounding villages in South Yorkshire.

6 postcodes in the S61 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 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 S61 postcodes are at risk?

S61 2DW up to High S61 2NF up to High S61 2QG up to High S61 2QP up to High S61 2DR up to Low S61 4QN up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near S61

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

Sheffield Blackburn on the Blackburn Brook — 1.4 km away, highest on record 3.46m
Sheffield Wincobank on the Blackburn Brook — 1.8 km away, highest on record 2.71m
Hadfields on the River Don — 2.9 km away, highest on record 4.68m
Ecclesfield Morrisons on the Whitley Brook — 3.3 km away, highest on record 2.29m

242 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (108 at warning level or above), most recently 29 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 21.7 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 49.1 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 46.3 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

S60 S62 S63 S64 S65 S66 S70 S71

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.