Does Blaydon flood?

What the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk data says about Blaydon

Ordnance Survey places 39 postcodes in Blaydon in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset (Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea). Each postcode is counted once, under the worst band any of its properties reaches; together they hold 258 properties in the EA dataset's likelihood bands.

This dataset covers flooding from rivers and the sea only — one of five flood sources. Surface water, groundwater, sewers and reservoirs are assessed separately, so a postcode missing from it is not proof that a place cannot flood. The band describes the land around properties (allowing for defences), not any single address and not today's conditions.

Rivers and live river levels near Blaydon

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Blaydon watch River Derwent, Ouse Burn, River Team.

• Rowlands Gill
  River Derwent · 5.5 km away 0.13 m
  normal range · steady · 31 min ago
• Woolsington
  Ouse Burn · 6.9 km away 0.02 m
  normal range · steady · 31 min ago
• Team Valley
  River Team · 7.2 km away 0.21 m
  normal range · steady · 31 min ago
• Crag Hall
  Ouse Burn · 7.6 km away 0.06 m
  normal range · steady · 31 min ago
• Tanfield
  River Team · 8.2 km away 0.19 m
  normal range · steady · 31 min ago
• Gosforth
  Ouse Burn · 8.3 km away 0.27 m
  normal range · steady · 31 min ago
• Blackhall Mill
  River Derwent · 9.4 km away 0.07 m
  below normal · rising · 31 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Blaydon's at-risk postcodes. Tidal and structure gauges are shown as readings only — the tide and sluice gates move them, not floods. A gauge with no recent reading shows no level.

Flood warning areas near Blaydon

13 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Blaydon. The EA has issued 101 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 18 Apr 2026.

• Properties at the Hannington Works on Longrigg Road, Swalwell including J R Adams and Stadium Packing Services, and properties at Toll Bridge Road at Derwenthaugh
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Apr 2024 0.9 km
• Properties around The Pavilion, Hexham Road, and The Covers 1.0 km
• Properties and low lying areas around Wood Street, Farriers Way, Lintzford, Riverside Way, The Copse, Bates Lane, Hexham Road, and The Sands Industrial Estate
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Sep 2012 1.1 km
• Properties at Derwenthaugh Industrial Estate, Festival Way and Enterprise Park at Dunston, and Whickham Junction at Dunston including Waterside Drive and Cross Lane, and properties at Scotswood Road 2.9 km
• Properties around Foundry Lane, Lime Street and Ouse Street 7.1 km
• Properties around Woolsington Bridge, The Oval, and Brunton Lane
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Sep 2012 7.1 km
• Ouseburn, its tributaries and north bank tributaries of the Tyne estuary
  20 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Apr 2024 8.2 km
• Properties around Acomb Crescent, Milford Gardens, Princes Road including Princes Close, Waterbury Road, The Fairway, Burnside Road, Saxilby Drive, Whitebridge Parkway, Charleswood, Fernwood Avenue, Briarwood Avenue, South Gosforth and Jesmond Vale 8.2 km
• Properties around Easedale Avenue, Melton Park, The Fairway, Bridge Park, Fencer Court, Charleswood, Burnside Road, Whitebridge Walk, Celandine Close, and Killingworth Road 8.3 km
• Properties around Willowbay Drive, Glamis Avenue, Briarwood Avenue, Killingworth Road, North Lodge, and Jesmond Vale 8.8 km
• Tyne estuary from Wylam to the North Sea coast, including Watergate Car Park at Newcastle Quayside
  70 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Apr 2026 9.3 km
• East and West Cottages and properties and low lying areas at Bywell and the Low Prudhoe Industrial Estate including Castle Lea, Princess Way, Princess Court, Dukes Way, Dukes Court, Earls Court and Regents Drive
  5 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2020 9.4 km

Recorded floods near Blaydon

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Blaydon, most recent first. Absence of a record does not mean a place has never flooded. See them on the map →

• 5 Dec 2013 — St Omers Haugh, Newcastle Quayside, North Shields Sea
• 25 Sep 2012 — Team Valley surface water flooding 25/09/2012 Drainage
• 25 Sep 2012 — Team Valley River Team 25th September 2012 Main river
• 28 Jun 2012 — Black Burn, Team Valley Ordinary watercourse
• 28 Jun 2012 — Team Valley Maingate area Main river
• 28 Jun 2012 — Ladypark Ordinary watercourse
• 17 Jul 2009 — Rowlands Gill Ordinary watercourse
• 6 Sep 2008 — River Derwent Rural Main river
• 6 Sep 2008 — Team Valley Trading Estate Ordinary watercourse
• 6 Sep 2008 — Blaydon Rugby Club, Blaydon Main river
• 6 Sep 2008 — Derwenthaugh Road allotments, Blaydon Main river
• 6 Sep 2008 — Caravan Park, Rowlands Gill Main river

…and 11 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Blaydon

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (4.5 km away), recorded 0.2 mm in the last 24 hours and 8.4 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 47 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Blaydon

Every postcode Ordnance Survey places in Blaydon that appears in the EA's rivers-and-sea dataset, worst band first. Each links to its own flood-risk page.

High likelihood (11)

Medium likelihood (18)

Low likelihood (10)

Postcode districts

Sources

FloodRadar summarises public flood data. It is not a flood-risk survey of any property, and it does not replace official GOV.UK flood warnings or the GOV.UK long-term flood risk service.