Does Ryton flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 20 postcodes in Ryton 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 622 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 Ryton

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

• Woolsington
  Ouse Burn · 6.0 km away 0.10 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 1 h ago
• Rowlands Gill
  River Derwent · 6.3 km away 0.16 m
  normal range · 29 min ago
• Callerton Lane
  River Pont · 8.4 km away 0.09 m
  normal range · 29 min ago
• Crag Hall
  Ouse Burn · 8.9 km away 0.26 m
  normal range · falling · 29 min ago
• Blackhall Mill
  River Derwent · 9.0 km away 0.10 m
  normal range · 29 min ago
• Gosforth
  Ouse Burn · 9.1 km away 0.46 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 29 min ago
• Team Valley
  River Team · 9.8 km away 0.25 m
  normal range · 29 min ago
• Tanfield
  River Team · 9.8 km away 0.26 m
  normal range · 29 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Ryton'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 Ryton

14 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Ryton. The EA has issued 33 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 9 Apr 2024.

• 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 3.2 km
• Properties around The Pavilion, Hexham Road, and The Covers
  no warning on record since 2006 3.6 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 3.7 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
  no warning on record since 2006 5.3 km
• Properties around Woolsington Bridge, The Oval, and Brunton Lane
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Sep 2012 6.9 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 7.2 km
• Properties and low lying areas around Ferry Landing, Ovingham and Tyne Riverside Country Park including The Old School House, Burnside Close, Bleach Green Farm Cottage, Dene House, The Bridge End Inn, Greenhaugh House and Tyne House
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2020 8.5 km
• Properties at Main Street, Ponteland Town Centre, Eland Haugh Estate, Paddock Hill, Atholl House, Callerton Lane, Cecil Court, Fairney Close, Mayfair Gardens and Fairney Edge
  no warning on record since 2006 8.6 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 8.7 km
• Ouseburn, its tributaries and north bank tributaries of the Tyne estuary
  20 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Apr 2024 8.9 km
• Properties around Willowbay Drive, Glamis Avenue, Briarwood Avenue, Killingworth Road, North Lodge, and Jesmond Vale
  no warning on record since 2006 8.9 km
• Properties and low lying areas around River View, Mill Court, Nursery Court, and numbers 9-12 Armondside Road
  no warning on record since 2006 9.1 km

Recorded floods near Ryton

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Ryton, 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 — St Omers Haugh, Newcastle Quayside, North Shields Sea
• 6 Sep 2008 — River Derwent Rural Main river
• 6 Sep 2008 — Blaydon Rugby Club, Blaydon Main river
• 6 Sep 2008 — Derwenthaugh Road allotments, Blaydon Main river
• 19 Aug 2008 — Sled Lane Ordinary watercourse
• 30 Apr 2008 — Haugh Lane, Newburn Industrial Estate Sewer
• 30 Apr 2008 — Wylam Ordinary watercourse
• 20 Jun 2007 — Newburn Bridge Road Industrial Estate Drainage
• 1 Jan 1975 — Wylam 1975 unknown flood Ordinary watercourse
• 1 Sep 1969 — Dunston, sewer surcharge Sea
• 1 Jan 1900 — Woolsington Main river
• 1 Jan 1900 — Heddon-on-the-Wall Drainage

…and 1 earlier recorded flood on the map.

Rainfall near Ryton

Ryton gets about 688 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 72 mm; driest March, 44 mm). That is 41% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.9 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (4.4 km away), recorded 4.6 mm in the last 24 hours and 30.2 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 29 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Ryton

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

High likelihood (9)

Medium likelihood (2)

Low likelihood (9)

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.