Does WS7 flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in WS7: none of its 2 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The WS7 postcode district covers Highfield, Boney Hay & Central, Summerfield & All Saints, close to Hamstall Ridware, King's Bromley, Hopwas, and surrounding villages in Staffordshire.

2 postcodes in the WS7 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 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 WS7 postcodes are at risk?

WS7 2PF up to Low WS7 9BN up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near WS7

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

Cannock on the Ridings Brook — 7.7 km away, highest on record 2.36m
Hamstall Ridware on the River Blithe — 10.7 km away, highest on record 1.30m
Kings Bromley on the River Trent — 10.8 km away, highest on record 2.68m
Hints on the Bourne Brook — 12.3 km away, highest on record 2.28m

177 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (21 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

WS6 WS5 WS9 WS10 WS4 WS11 WS3 WS12

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.