Does WV4 flood?

Yes — parts of the WV4 district carry real flood risk: 1 of its 3 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WV4 postcode district covers Pattingham, Trysull, Bobbington & Lower Penn, Merry Hill, close to Wightwick, Swindon, Stourton, and surrounding villages in parts of West Midlands and Staffordshire.

3 postcodes in the WV4 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 high, 1 medium, 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 WV4 postcodes are at risk?

WV4 4XE up to High WV4 4XD up to Medium WV4 4YJ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near WV4

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

Wightwick on the Smestow Brook — 2.2 km away, highest on record 1.33m
Swindon on the Smestow Brook — 5.6 km away, highest on record 3.06m
Stourton on the River Stour — 11.3 km away, highest on record 3.22m
Sheepwash on the River Tame — 11.4 km away, highest on record 2.83m

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

WV3 WV5 WV6 WV1 WV7 WV8 WV9 WV10

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.