Does Newcastle-under-Lyme flood?

What the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk data says about Newcastle-under-Lyme

Ordnance Survey places 69 postcodes in Newcastle-under-Lyme 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 719 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 Newcastle-under-Lyme

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Newcastle-under-Lyme watch Lyme Brook, Fowlea Brook, River Trent, Ford Green Brook.

• Newcastle Under Lyme
  Lyme Brook · 1.2 km away 0.33 m
  normal range · 53 min ago
• Liverpool Road, Stoke-On-Trent
  Fowlea Brook · 3.9 km away 0.38 m
  normal range · rising · 38 min ago
• Hanford Bridge
  River Trent · 4.7 km away 0.62 m
  normal range · 53 min ago
• Bucknall Structure
  River Trent · 5.3 km away 0.21 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 53 min ago
• Brookhouse Farm
  Ford Green Brook · 8.7 km away 0.40 m
  normal range · 53 min ago
• Knypersley
  River Trent · 9.5 km away 0.43 m
  normal range · steady · 53 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Newcastle-under-Lyme'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 Newcastle-under-Lyme

9 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Newcastle-under-Lyme. The EA has issued 95 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 23 Oct 2026.

• Ashfield Brook at Newcastle-Under-Lyme from Meadow Lane to Knutton Lane
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 0.6 km
• Lyme Brook at Newcastle under Lyme and Trent Vale including Silverdale Road, Stanier Street, St Pauls Road, Orme Road, Pool Dam, Hatrell Street, Brook Lane, Lyme Valley Road and Sports Grounds off Rosetree Avenue
  8 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 0.8 km
• Fowlea Brook from Cliff Vale Industrial Park to Stoke Town Hall
  no warning on record since 2006 2.9 km
• River Trent at Stoke on Trent including Joiners Square, the University and Boothen
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2021 4.3 km
• River Trent at Abbey Hulton and Bucknall area of Stoke including Fishpond Way, Mill Farm, Leek Road, Atlam Close, Westacre, Broughton Road and Dividy Road
  no warning on record since 2006 6.1 km
• River Trent at Hanford and Trentham including Church Lane area of Hanford, Park Drive in Trentham and Trentham Gardens
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Aug 2020 6.2 km
• Ford Green Brook at Fegg Hayes, Bradeley and Sneyd Green, Stoke on Trent including Catherine Road in Fegg Hayes, Tudor Rose Way and Station Crescent in Bradeley and Milton Road in Sneyd Green
  no warning on record since 2006 6.6 km
• Low-lying land and roads between Norton Green and Darlaston on the River Trent and on the Lyme Brook and Ford Green Brook
  79 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 6.9 km
• River Trent at Norton Green including Trent Terrace, Endon Road, Foundry Square, Probisher Street and Little Heakley Farm
  no warning on record since 2006 8.4 km

Recorded floods near Newcastle-under-Lyme

None mapped within ~5 km of Newcastle-under-Lyme.

No recorded outline within ~5 km of Newcastle-under-Lyme means no flood was mapped here, which is not evidence none happened: the Environment Agency mapped only some floods, mapping effort rose sharply after about 2000, and surface-water flooding is largely absent from this record. Open the recorded-floods map →

Rainfall near Newcastle-under-Lyme

Newcastle-under-Lyme gets about 840 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month December, 86 mm; driest March, 55 mm). That is 28% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.6 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (11.1 km away), recorded 6.6 mm in the last 24 hours and 51.4 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 38 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Newcastle-under-Lyme

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

High likelihood (32)

Medium likelihood (12)

Low likelihood (23)

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.