Does WV6 flood?

Yes — parts of the WV6 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 20 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WV6 postcode district covers Tettenhall Wightwick, Perton Wrottesley, Park, Tettenhall Regis, close to Wightwick, Coven, Swindon, and surrounding villages in parts of Staffordshire and Shropshire.

20 postcodes in the WV6 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 6 medium, 11 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 WV6 postcodes are at risk?

WV6 7JU up to High WV6 7YB up to High WV6 8AB up to High WV6 0HR up to Medium WV6 0JX up to Medium WV6 7EZ up to Medium WV6 8AA up to Medium WV6 8BD up to Medium WV6 8BN up to Medium WV6 0HT up to Low WV6 0JT up to Low WV6 7DU up to Low WV6 7HY up to Low WV6 7RD up to Low WV6 7XZ up to Low WV6 7YJ up to Low WV6 8PG up to Low WV6 8PW up to Low WV6 8UA up to Low WV6 9NB up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near WV6

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

Wightwick on the Smestow Brook — 1.5 km away, highest on record 1.33m
Coven on the River Penk — 8.5 km away, highest on record 2.48m
Swindon on the Smestow Brook — 9.1 km away, highest on record 3.06m
Cosford River on the River Worfe — 9.8 km away, highest on record 1.16m

150 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (41 at warning level or above), most recently 2 June 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.