Does WS4 flood?

Yes — parts of the WS4 district carry real flood risk: 11 of its 30 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WS4 postcode district covers Rushall-Shelfield, St Matthew's, Pelsall, close to Walsall, Park Hill, Sandwell Valley, and surrounding villages in parts of West Midlands and Staffordshire.

30 postcodes in the WS4 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 11 high, 12 medium, 7 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 WS4 postcodes are at risk?

WS4 1DB up to High WS4 1GA up to High WS4 1GB up to High WS4 1NE up to High WS4 1NH up to High WS4 1NJ up to High WS4 1NQ up to High WS4 1SW up to High WS4 2BB up to High WS4 2EN up to High WS4 2ER up to High WS4 1BG up to Medium WS4 1DD up to Medium WS4 1DF up to Medium WS4 1ER up to Medium WS4 1ES up to Medium WS4 1EX up to Medium WS4 1GD up to Medium WS4 1NN up to Medium WS4 1PH up to Medium WS4 1SA up to Medium WS4 2LQ up to Medium WS4 2LX up to Medium WS4 1BZ up to Low WS4 1EW up to Low WS4 1NA up to Low WS4 1SB up to Low WS4 2BA up to Low WS4 2BQ up to Low WS4 2BS up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near WS4

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

WS3 WS5 WS2 WS6 WS1 WS7 WS9 WS10

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.