Does WV8 flood?

Yes — parts of the WV8 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 7 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WV8 postcode district covers Codsall, Bilbrook, Oxley, close to Wightwick, Coven, Penkridge, and surrounding villages in parts of Staffordshire and West Midlands.

7 postcodes in the WV8 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high, 2 medium, 3 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 WV8 postcodes are at risk?

WV8 1QG up to High WV8 1RS up to High WV8 1JL up to Medium WV8 2HH up to Medium WV8 1DH up to Low WV8 1DW up to Low WV8 2HG up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near WV8

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

Wightwick on the Smestow Brook — 4.6 km away, highest on record 1.33m
Coven on the River Penk — 5.4 km away, highest on record 2.48m
Deepmore Farm on the Saredon Brook — 7.6 km away, highest on record 1.97m
Cosford River on the River Worfe — 9.3 km away, highest on record 1.16m

53 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (53 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

WV7 WV9 WV10 WV6 WV11 WV5 WV12 WV4

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.