Does SR8 flood?

Yes — parts of the SR8 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 2 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SR8 postcode district covers Peterlee, Easington & Shotton, Horden & Dene House, close to Hartlepool Valley Drive, Houghton Le Spring, Hartlepool Burn Valley Gardens, and surrounding villages in parts of Hartlepool and Tyne and Wear.

2 postcodes in the SR8 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high. 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 SR8 postcodes are at risk?

SR8 3DA up to High SR8 5RR up to High

Rivers and flooding history near SR8

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

Houghton Le Spring on the Moors Burn — 12.5 km away, highest on record 1.77m
Hartlepool Burn Valley Gardens on the Burn Valley Beck — 12.7 km away, highest on record 1.18m
Durham New Elvet Bridge on the River Wear — 14.9 km away, highest on record 3.83m
Sunderland Bridge on the River Wear — 16.3 km away, highest on record 3.71m

5 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006, most recently 8 July 2023. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

23,GALLAGHER CRESCENT,HORDEN,PETERLEE, (2007) — about 1.2 km from the centre
10,DIXON RISE,HORDEN,PETERLEE, (2007) — about 2.5 km from the centre
104,THIRD STREET,HORDEN,PETERLEE,NEAR BLACKHILLS R (2007) — about 1.9 km from the centre
2,CHILTON GARTH,PETERLEE, (2007) — about 1.8 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

SR7 SR6 SR5 SR4 SR3 SR2 SR1 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.