Does WS10 flood?

Yes — parts of the WS10 district carry real flood risk: 7 of its 33 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WS10 postcode district covers Friar Park, Wednesbury South, Bentley and Darlaston North, Wednesbury North, close to Park Hill, Walsall, Sheepwash, Tipton, and surrounding villages in parts of West Midlands and Staffordshire.

33 postcodes in the WS10 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 7 high, 3 medium, 19 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 WS10 postcodes are at risk?

WS10 0DR up to High WS10 0JX up to High WS10 0PB up to High WS10 0PD up to High WS10 0RX up to High WS10 0RZ up to High WS10 9QY up to High WS10 0NS up to Medium WS10 0PA up to Medium WS10 0RH up to Medium WS10 0AQ up to Low WS10 0AW up to Low WS10 0BJ up to Low WS10 0BP up to Low WS10 0BS up to Low WS10 0BT up to Low WS10 0DX up to Low WS10 0NQ up to Low WS10 0NT up to Low WS10 0RP up to Low WS10 0RU up to Low WS10 0SL up to Low WS10 0TJ up to Low WS10 0TR up to Low WS10 0TS up to Low WS10 7WL up to Low WS10 8LL up to Low WS10 8LN up to Low WS10 8LQ up to Low WS10 0DZ up to Very low WS10 0HD up to Very low WS10 0HF up to Very low WS10 0RL up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near WS10

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

WS11 WS9 WS12 WS13 WS7 WS14 WS6 WS15

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.