Does SR2 flood?

Parts of the SR2 district carry moderate flood risk: 1 of its 17 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's Medium likelihood band. The SR2 postcode district covers St Michael's, close to Houghton Le Spring, Chester-Le-Street, and surrounding villages in parts of Tyne and Wear and County Durham.

17 postcodes in the SR2 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 medium, 16 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 SR2 postcodes are at risk?

SR2 7NA up to Medium SR2 7HE up to Low SR2 7HH up to Low SR2 7HJ up to Low SR2 7HP up to Low SR2 7HR up to Low SR2 7HS up to Low SR2 7LE up to Low SR2 7QN up to Low SR2 7QQ up to Low SR2 7RA up to Low SR2 7RJ up to Low SR2 7RN up to Low SR2 7RU up to Low SR2 7RX up to Low SR2 7SA up to Low SR2 7SL up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near SR2

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

Houghton Le Spring on the Moors Burn — 8.6 km away, highest on record 1.77m
Chester-Le-Street on the River Wear — 11.8 km away, highest on record 4.06m
Team Valley on the River Team — 14.5 km away, highest on record 1.74m
Durham New Elvet Bridge on the River Wear — 17.7 km away, highest on record 3.83m

310 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (78 at warning level or above), most recently 17 July 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

No recorded flood extent is mapped near this district's centre. No recorded outline near the district means no flood was mapped here, which is not evidence none happened: the Environment Agency mapped only some floods, mapping effort rose sharply after about 2000, and surface-water flooding is largely absent from this record.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

SR1 SR3 SR4 SR5 SR6 SR7 SR8 SR16

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.