Does S62 flood?

Yes — parts of the S62 district carry real flood risk: 11 of its 35 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The S62 postcode district covers Rawmarsh West, Rawmarsh East, Hoober, close to Rotherham, Kilnhurst Lower, Sheffield, and surrounding villages in South Yorkshire.

35 postcodes in the S62 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 11 high, 7 medium, 17 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 S62 postcodes are at risk?

S62 5NS up to High S62 6EA up to High S62 6FP up to High S62 6FW up to High S62 6JL up to High S62 6JQ up to High S62 6LH up to High S62 6LJ up to High S62 6NR up to High S62 7UL up to High S62 7UN up to High S62 5HG up to Medium S62 5HZ up to Medium S62 6DR up to Medium S62 6JE up to Medium S62 6JJ up to Medium S62 6LL up to Medium S62 6NW up to Medium S62 5HX up to Low S62 6EE up to Low S62 6EF up to Low S62 6EG up to Low S62 6EJ up to Low S62 6EP up to Low S62 6FH up to Low S62 6HA up to Low S62 6HD up to Low S62 6HF up to Low S62 6HQ up to Low S62 6NP up to Low S62 6NU up to Low S62 6NX up to Low S62 6PB up to Low S62 7PW up to Low S62 7UE up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near S62

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

Rotherham Forge Island on the River Don — 2.8 km away, highest on record 3.32m
Rotherham on the River Don — 3.4 km away, highest on record 4.29m
Sheffield Blackburn on the Blackburn Brook — 5.4 km away, highest on record 3.46m
Sheffield Wincobank on the Blackburn Brook — 5.4 km away, highest on record 2.71m

263 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (91 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):

2022 February Flood Incident -Storm Dudley, Eunice and Franklin (2022) — about 17.8 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 46.3 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

S61 S63 S60 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.