Does ST1 flood?

Yes — parts of the ST1 district carry real flood risk: 5 of its 16 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The ST1 postcode district covers Hanley Park, Joiner's Square & Shelton, Etruria & Hanley, Moorcroft & Sneyd Green, close to Bucknall, Hanfor Bridge, Stoke-On-Trent, Knypersley, and surrounding villages in parts of Staffordshire and England.

16 postcodes in the ST1 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 5 high, 3 medium, 8 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 ST1 postcodes are at risk?

ST1 3HP up to High ST1 3HT up to High ST1 3JE up to High ST1 5NJ up to High ST1 6AF up to High ST1 3JB up to Medium ST1 3JD up to Medium ST1 5PE up to Medium ST1 3JA up to Low ST1 3JF up to Low ST1 3NH up to Low ST1 3PB up to Low ST1 5GP up to Low ST1 5PJ up to Low ST1 5SE up to Low ST1 6LE up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near ST1

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

Liverpool Road, Stoke-On-Trent on the Fowlea Brook — 1.5 km away, highest on record 2.36m
Newcastle Under Lyme on the Lyme Brook — 3.8 km away, highest on record 2.31m
Hanford Bridge on the River Trent — 4.6 km away, highest on record 2.33m
Brookhouse Farm on the Ford Green Brook — 7.1 km away, highest on record 1.55m

91 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (13 at warning level or above), most recently 20 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

ST2 ST3 ST4 ST5 ST6 ST7 ST8 ST9

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.