Does WV3 flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in WV3: none of its 1 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The WV3 postcode district covers Tettenhall Wightwick, close to Wightwick, Swindon, Coven, and surrounding villages in parts of Staffordshire and West Midlands.

1 postcode in the WV3 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 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 WV3 postcodes are at risk?

WV3 8HJ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near WV3

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

Wightwick on the Smestow Brook — 0.2 km away, highest on record 1.33m
Swindon on the Smestow Brook — 7.6 km away, highest on record 3.06m
Coven on the River Penk — 9.7 km away, highest on record 2.48m
Cosford River on the River Worfe — 11.2 km away, highest on record 1.16m

17 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (17 at warning level or above), most recently 27 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.