Does WS13 flood?

Yes — parts of the WS13 district carry real flood risk: 9 of its 33 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WS13 postcode district covers Curborough, Stowe, Leomansley, Whittington & Streethay, close to Elford, King's Bromley, Hopwas, and surrounding villages in Staffordshire.

33 postcodes in the WS13 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 9 high, 2 medium, 22 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 WS13 postcodes are at risk?

WS13 6QY up to High WS13 6QZ up to High WS13 7AA up to High WS13 7AG up to High WS13 7NB up to High WS13 8HQ up to High WS13 8HY up to High WS13 8QT up to High WS13 8SP up to High WS13 8PX up to Medium WS13 8QU up to Medium WS13 6AY up to Low WS13 6BL up to Low WS13 6PN up to Low WS13 6TR up to Low WS13 6TS up to Low WS13 6TU up to Low WS13 7PG up to Low WS13 7PQ up to Low WS13 7RZ up to Low WS13 7SA up to Low WS13 7SF up to Low WS13 7ST up to Low WS13 7SX up to Low WS13 7SY up to Low WS13 7TE up to Low WS13 7TG up to Low WS13 8ER up to Low WS13 8EW up to Low WS13 8HL up to Low WS13 8HT up to Low WS13 8PT up to Low WS13 8PY up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near WS13

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

337 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (104 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.