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Does YO12 flood?

Yes — parts of the YO12 district carry real flood risk: 17 of its 27 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The YO12 postcode district covers Newby, Falsgrave & Stepney, Seamer, close to Scalby, Scalby Mills, Mowthorpe, and surrounding villages in North Yorkshire.

27 postcodes in the YO12 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 17 high, 5 medium, 5 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 YO12 postcodes are at risk?

YO12 4BG up to High YO12 4JA up to High YO12 4QB up to High YO12 4UH up to High YO12 5JA up to High YO12 5PA up to High YO12 5SB up to High YO12 5SD up to High YO12 5SE up to High YO12 5SF up to High YO12 5SL up to High YO12 5SN up to High YO12 5SQ up to High YO12 6ED up to High YO12 6EE up to High YO12 6RP up to High YO12 7TN up to High YO12 4HF up to Medium YO12 5RY up to Medium YO12 5TB up to Medium YO12 7LJ up to Medium YO12 7TR up to Medium YO12 4JH up to Low YO12 4RJ up to Low YO12 5SG up to Low YO12 6EG up to Low YO12 7TL up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near YO12

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

375 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (135 at warning level or above), most recently 18 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

YO11 YO13 YO10 YO14 YO15 YO16 YO8 YO17

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.