Does WS11 flood?

Yes — parts of the WS11 district carry real flood risk: 5 of its 29 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WS11 postcode district covers Cannock Longford & Bridgtown, Hawks Green with Rumer Hill, Featherstone, Sharehill & Saredon, Great Wyrley Town, close to Coven, Penkridge, Wightwick, and surrounding villages in parts of Staffordshire and West Midlands.

29 postcodes in the WS11 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 5 high, 4 medium, 3 low, 17 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 WS11 postcodes are at risk?

WS11 0HA up to High WS11 0XA up to High WS11 0XG up to High WS11 1SL up to High WS11 1ST up to High WS11 0DJ up to Medium WS11 1SN up to Medium WS11 1SU up to Medium WS11 8LX up to Medium WS11 0BD up to Low WS11 0DG up to Low WS11 1TA up to Low WS11 0AG up to Very low WS11 0AJ up to Very low WS11 0BE up to Very low WS11 0DD up to Very low WS11 0DE up to Very low WS11 0EJ up to Very low WS11 0EN up to Very low WS11 0ET up to Very low WS11 0HN up to Very low WS11 0HP up to Very low WS11 0JB up to Very low WS11 0JN up to Very low WS11 0JP up to Very low WS11 0LJ up to Very low WS11 8EE up to Very low WS11 8EH up to Very low WS11 8JF up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near WS11

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

74 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (74 at warning level or above), most recently 2 June 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

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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.