Does ST9 flood?

Yes — parts of the ST9 district carry real flood risk: 8 of its 19 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The ST9 postcode district covers Brown Edge and Endon, Bagnall and Stanley, Ipstones, Baddeley, Milton & Norton, close to Knypersley, Flint Mill, Cheddleton, Cheddleton, and surrounding villages in parts of Staffordshire and England.

19 postcodes in the ST9 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 8 high, 7 medium, 4 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 ST9 postcodes are at risk?

ST9 0AJ up to High ST9 9BA up to High ST9 9DH up to High ST9 9DQ up to High ST9 9EJ up to High ST9 9EU up to High ST9 9EW up to High ST9 9NJ up to High ST9 9AZ up to Medium ST9 9DR up to Medium ST9 9DT up to Medium ST9 9DX up to Medium ST9 9EL up to Medium ST9 9EX up to Medium ST9 9LL up to Medium ST9 9BG up to Low ST9 9EN up to Low ST9 9LG up to Low ST9 9QD up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near ST9

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

Wallgrange on the Endon Brook — 3.6 km away, highest on record 2.28m
Knypersley on the River Trent — 3.7 km away, highest on record 1.24m
Flint Mill on the River Churnet — 4.3 km away, highest on record 3.37m
Brookhouse Farm on the Ford Green Brook — 5.1 km away, highest on record 1.55m

295 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 27 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Upper Trent November 1959 (1959) — about 2.6 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

ST10 ST8 ST11 ST7 ST12 ST6 ST13 ST5

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.