Does Gateshead flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 83 postcodes in Gateshead 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 543 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 Gateshead

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

• Team Valley
  River Team · 2.6 km away 0.22 m
  normal range · 35 min ago
• Crag Hall
  Ouse Burn · 6.6 km away 0.20 m
  normal range · 35 min ago
• Rowlands Gill
  River Derwent · 7.9 km away 0.14 m
  normal range · steady · 35 min ago
• Tanfield
  River Team · 7.9 km away 0.23 m
  normal range · steady · 35 min ago
• Gosforth
  Ouse Burn · 8.3 km away 0.42 m
  normal range · 35 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Gateshead'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 Gateshead

14 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Gateshead. The EA has issued 109 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 25 Oct 2026.

• 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
  no warning on record since 2006 2.7 km
• Properties around Foundry Lane, Lime Street and Ouse Street
  no warning on record since 2006 4.1 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 4.3 km
• Properties around The Pavilion, Hexham Road, and The Covers
  no warning on record since 2006 4.4 km
• 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 4.8 km
• Tyne estuary from Wylam to the North Sea coast, including Watergate Car Park at Newcastle Quayside
  77 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 5.7 km
• Properties at Willington Boat Club, Wincomblee Estates in Walker, Newcastle Quayside from Wetherspoon's Pub to Broad Chare, Brama Teams Industrial Park, Ravensworth Road and Clockwork MOT at Clockmill Road
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2024 6.6 km
• Properties around Easedale Avenue, Melton Park, The Fairway, Bridge Park, Fencer Court, Charleswood, Burnside Road, Whitebridge Walk, Celandine Close, and Killingworth Road
  no warning on record since 2006 8.3 km
• Ouseburn, its tributaries and north bank tributaries of the Tyne estuary
  20 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Apr 2024 8.4 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
  no warning on record since 2006 8.9 km
• Properties around Woolsington Bridge, The Oval, and Brunton Lane
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Sep 2012 9.4 km
• Properties on East Bridge Street, River View and Bonemill Lane, Fatfield
  no warning on record since 2006 9.7 km

Recorded floods near Gateshead

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Gateshead, most recent first. Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded. See them on the map →

• 5 Dec 2013 — Wallsend Riverside Sea
• 5 Dec 2013 — St Omers Haugh, Newcastle Quayside, North Shields Sea
• 5 Aug 2013 — August 2013 Flooding
• 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
• 28 Jun 2012 — Team Valley Retail Park Drainage
• 27 Nov 2011 — Newcastle Quayside Sea
• 6 Sep 2008 — River Derwent Rural Main river
• 6 Sep 2008 — Team Valley Trading Estate Ordinary watercourse

…and 11 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Gateshead

Gateshead gets about 672 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 71 mm; driest March, 42 mm). That is 42% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.2 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (7.5 km away), recorded 4.8 mm in the last 24 hours and 29.6 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 35 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Gateshead

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

High likelihood (13)

Medium likelihood (23)

Low likelihood (45)

Very low likelihood (2)

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.