Does WS1 flood?

Yes — parts of the WS1 district carry real flood risk: 9 of its 75 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WS1 postcode district covers St Matthew's, Palfrey, close to Walsall, Park Hill, Sandwell Valley, and surrounding villages in parts of West Midlands and Staffordshire.

75 postcodes in the WS1 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 9 high, 53 medium, 9 low, 4 very 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 WS1 postcodes are at risk?

WS1 1NG up to High WS1 1NH up to High WS1 1SZ up to High WS1 1YS up to High WS1 1YT up to High WS1 2AG up to High WS1 2BN up to High WS1 4JH up to High WS1 4NN up to High WS1 1DA up to Medium WS1 1DE up to Medium WS1 1DH up to Medium WS1 1DP up to Medium WS1 1EL up to Medium WS1 1EP up to Medium WS1 1ER up to Medium WS1 1EW up to Medium WS1 1EX up to Medium WS1 1HP up to Medium WS1 1JQ up to Medium WS1 1JY up to Medium WS1 1LG up to Medium WS1 1LN up to Medium WS1 1LR up to Medium WS1 1LW up to Medium WS1 1LY up to Medium WS1 1NJ up to Medium WS1 1NR up to Medium WS1 1NU up to Medium WS1 1NX up to Medium WS1 1PB up to Medium WS1 1PL up to Medium WS1 1PQ up to Medium WS1 1PT up to Medium WS1 1QS up to Medium WS1 1QZ up to Medium WS1 1RE up to Medium WS1 1RY up to Medium WS1 1SE up to Medium WS1 1SL up to Medium WS1 1SP up to Medium WS1 1SR up to Medium WS1 1SX up to Medium WS1 1SY up to Medium WS1 1TR up to Medium WS1 1UZ up to Medium WS1 1XS up to Medium WS1 3QP up to Medium WS1 3QU up to Medium WS1 4AG up to Medium WS1 4DH up to Medium WS1 4DJ up to Medium WS1 4DL up to Medium WS1 4DN up to Medium WS1 4DQ up to Medium WS1 4JG up to Medium WS1 4JJ up to Medium WS1 4LR up to Medium WS1 4ND up to Medium WS1 4NG up to Medium WS1 4NU up to Medium WS1 4SB up to Medium WS1 1AA up to Low WS1 1DD up to Low WS1 1PY up to Low WS1 4DW up to Low WS1 4JQ up to Low WS1 4JW up to Low WS1 4LT up to Low WS1 4NE up to Low WS1 4NX up to Low WS1 4PB up to Very low WS1 4SA up to Very low WS1 4SD up to Very low WS1 4SE up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near WS1

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

55 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (18 at warning level or above), most recently 28 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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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.