Does WR3 flood?

Yes — parts of the WR3 district carry real flood risk: 14 of its 32 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WR3 postcode district covers St Stephen, Claines, North Claines & Salwarpe, Ombersley, close to Worcester, Salwarpe, Callow End, and surrounding villages in Worcestershire.

32 postcodes in the WR3 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 14 high, 10 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 WR3 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near WR3

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

Perdiswell on the Barbourne Brook — 0.3 km away, highest on record 7.28m
Shelley Close on the Barbourne Brook — 0.6 km away, highest on record 1.80m
Worcester (Barbourne) on the River Severn — 1.6 km away, highest on record 5.79m
Diglis on the River Severn — 4.1 km away, highest on record 5.30m

638 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (244 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):

Oct 1998 (1998) — about 3.8 km from the centre
December 1960 (Upper Severn) (1960) — about 3.2 km from the centre
March 1947 (Upper Severn) (1947) — about 1.7 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

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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.