Does WS5 flood?

Yes — parts of the WS5 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 6 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WS5 postcode district covers Palfrey, Great Barr with Yew Tree, close to Walsall, Park Hill, Sandwell Valley, and surrounding villages in parts of West Midlands and Staffordshire.

6 postcodes in the WS5 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high, 2 medium, 1 low, 1 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 WS5 postcodes are at risk?

WS5 4PE up to High WS5 4PN up to High WS5 4LP up to Medium WS5 4RE up to Medium WS5 4SG up to Low WS5 4SJ up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near WS5

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

Bescot on the River Tame — 0.8 km away, highest on record 3.51m
Walsall on the Ford Brook — 1.8 km away, highest on record 2.48m
Park Hill on the River Tame — 1.8 km away, highest on record 2.73m
Sandwell Woodend on the River Tame — 3.4 km away, highest on record 3.11m

60 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (23 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

WS4 WS6 WS3 WS7 WS2 WS1 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.