Does ST2 flood?

Yes — parts of the ST2 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 15 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The ST2 postcode district covers Abbey Hulton, Birches Head & Northwood, close to Bucknall, Knypersley, Hanfor Bridge, Stoke-On-Trent, and surrounding villages in parts of Staffordshire and England.

15 postcodes in the ST2 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high, 13 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 ST2 postcodes are at risk?

ST2 9AG up to High ST2 9JG up to High ST2 8AT up to Low ST2 8AU up to Low ST2 8AY up to Low ST2 8AZ up to Low ST2 8BE up to Low ST2 8BH up to Low ST2 8BP up to Low ST2 8BS up to Low ST2 8BU up to Low ST2 8BW up to Low ST2 8BX up to Low ST2 8DD up to Low ST2 9DH up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near ST2

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

Liverpool Road, Stoke-On-Trent on the Fowlea Brook — 3.7 km away, highest on record 2.36m
Knypersley on the River Trent — 6 km away, highest on record 1.24m
Newcastle Under Lyme on the Lyme Brook — 6.1 km away, highest on record 2.31m
Brookhouse Farm on the Ford Green Brook — 6.4 km away, highest on record 1.55m

118 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (40 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

ST1 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.