Does S98 flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in S98: none of its 1 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The S98 postcode district covers City, close to Sheffield, Sheffield Meersbrook, Grimesthorpe, and surrounding villages in parts of South Yorkshire and Derbyshire.

1 postcode in the S98 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 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 S98 postcodes are at risk?

S98 6HR up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near S98

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

Sheffield Lady's Bridge on the River Don — 0.4 km away, highest on record 4.47m
Sheffield Station on the Porter Brook — 0.5 km away, highest on record 1.09m
Highfield on the River Sheaf — 0.9 km away, highest on record 3.26m
Sheffield Meersbrook on the Meers Brook — 2.9 km away, highest on record 1.07m

305 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (100 at warning level or above), most recently 31 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 28.7 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 56.4 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 53.6 km from the centre

Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

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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.