Does WR1 flood?

Yes — parts of the WR1 district carry real flood risk: 27 of its 61 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WR1 postcode district covers Cathedral, Arboretum, St Stephen, close to Worcester, Callow End, Bransford, and surrounding villages in Worcestershire.

61 postcodes in the WR1 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 27 high, 10 medium, 24 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 WR1 postcodes are at risk?

WR1 1JB up to High WR1 1JE up to High WR1 2JJ up to High WR1 2JN up to High WR1 2LH up to High WR1 2NR up to High WR1 2NS up to High WR1 3EA up to High WR1 3ED up to High WR1 3EH up to High WR1 3EJ up to High WR1 3ET up to High WR1 3EZ up to High WR1 3FF up to High WR1 3HB up to High WR1 3JE up to High WR1 3JG up to High WR1 3JJ up to High WR1 3JN up to High WR1 3JP up to High WR1 3LJ up to High WR1 3NG up to High WR1 3NN up to High WR1 3NR up to High WR1 3NS up to High WR1 3NY up to High WR1 3PA up to High WR1 1JA up to Medium WR1 1SB up to Medium WR1 2ND up to Medium WR1 2NG up to Medium WR1 2NL up to Medium WR1 2NW up to Medium WR1 3EY up to Medium WR1 3FD up to Medium WR1 3FE up to Medium WR1 3PD up to Medium WR1 1QY up to Low WR1 1RB up to Low WR1 1RL up to Low WR1 1SA up to Low WR1 1SD up to Low WR1 2AA up to Low WR1 2AJ up to Low WR1 2GB up to Low WR1 2GE up to Low WR1 2NF up to Low WR1 2NH up to Low WR1 2NJ up to Low WR1 2NP up to Low WR1 2NY up to Low WR1 3BE up to Low WR1 3EE up to Low WR1 3HE up to Low WR1 3HG up to Low WR1 3JF up to Low WR1 3JW up to Low WR1 3LE up to Low WR1 3NJ up to Low WR1 3PB up to Low WR1 3QN up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near WR1

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

539 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (273 at warning level or above), most recently 2 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

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

WR2 WR3 WR4 WR5 WR6 WR7 WR8 WR9

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.