Does WS12 flood?

Yes — parts of the WS12 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 5 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WS12 postcode district covers Hednesford Pye Green, Hednesford Hills & Rawnsley, Heath Hayes & Wimblebury, close to Penkridge, Milford, Great Haywood, and surrounding villages in Staffordshire.

5 postcodes in the WS12 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high, 2 medium, 1 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 WS12 postcodes are at risk?

WS12 0PH up to High WS12 2DY up to High WS12 1RA up to Medium WS12 1RB up to Medium WS12 1QR up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near WS12

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

Cannock on the Ridings Brook — 4.4 km away, highest on record 2.36m
Milford on the River Sow — 9.2 km away, highest on record 2.87m
Deepmore Farm on the Saredon Brook — 9.4 km away, highest on record 1.97m
Great Haywood on the River Trent — 10.2 km away, highest on record 3.28m

96 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (42 at warning level or above), most recently 1 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

WS11 WS13 WS10 WS14 WS15 WS9 WS7 WS6

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.