Does Stocksbridge flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 20 postcodes in Stocksbridge 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 221 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 Stocksbridge

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Stocksbridge watch The Porter River, River Don, Charlton Brook, River Dove, River Loxley.

• Stocksbridge Steelworks
  The Porter River · 0.7 km away 0.22 m
  normal range · steady · 26 min ago
• Oxspring Bower Hill
  River Don · 3.5 km away 0.00 m
  normal range · steady · 26 min ago
• Wharncliffe Side
  River Don · 5.4 km away 0.84 m
  normal range · steady · 26 min ago
• Penistone
  River Don · 5.8 km away 0.31 m
  normal range · steady · 26 min ago
• High Green
  Charlton Brook · 8.5 km away 0.00 m
  below normal · steady · 26 min ago
• Worsbrough
  River Dove · 9.5 km away 0.07 m
  normal range · rising · 26 min ago
• Loxley Rowell Bridge
  River Loxley · 9.7 km away 0.08 m
  normal range · steady · 26 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Stocksbridge'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 Stocksbridge

14 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Stocksbridge. The EA has issued 50 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 27 Aug 2026.

• Horner House, Wood Willows and confluence with River Don 0.5 km
• Thurgoland including Old Mill Lane and the Old Wire Mill
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Jul 2012 2.1 km
• Deepcar including the sewage treatment works 2.6 km
• Wortley Top Forge, Huthwaite including Forge Lane
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Jul 2012 3.0 km
• Thurgoland including Cheesebottom Farm and Cheesebottom sewage works. Oxspring including Oxspring Wire Mills
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Jul 2012 3.0 km
• River Don and its tributaries from Penistone to Kelham Island in Sheffield
  30 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Aug 2026 3.3 km
• Penistone including Water Hall Lane and Wentworth Meadows 5.5 km
• Ewden including the water treatment works and Wharncliffe Side including the sewage works
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2019 5.6 km
• Thurlstone including Hoyle Mill Lane. Penistone including Barnsley Road
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Jul 2012 5.7 km
• Thurlstone including Plumpton Mills on Saville Lane 6.0 km
• Millhouse Green including Birks Lane. Thurlstone upstream of Thurlstone Bridge and including Windmill Lane and the Old Corn Mill
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Jul 2012 6.3 km
• Oughtibridge including Waterside Gardens and properties situated off Station Lane
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Nov 2019 6.7 km

Recorded floods near Stocksbridge

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

• 20 Feb 2022 — 2022 February Flood Incident -Storm Dudley, Eunice and Franklin Drainage
• 18 Jan 2021 — 2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph Main river
• 15 Feb 2020 — 2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis Drainage
• 8 Feb 2020 — 2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Ciara Main river
• 7 Nov 2019 — 2019 November Flood Incident Main river
• 25 Jun 2007 — June 2007 Flood Event (Ridings Area) Main river
• 15 Jun 2007 — 2007 River Don Oughtibridge to Wadsley Bridge Main river
• 15 Jun 2007 — June 2007 Surface Water Flooding Yorkshire Other
• 15 Jun 2007 — 2007 River Don Warncliffe Wood Main river
• 15 Jun 2007 — 2007 The Porter or River Little Don Main river
• 15 Jun 2007 — 2007 River Don Thurlstone Main river
• 15 Jun 2007 — 2007 River Don Thurgoland Main river

…and 5 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Stocksbridge

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (5.3 km away), recorded 1.6 mm in the last 24 hours and 17.4 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 26 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Stocksbridge

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

High likelihood (6)

Medium likelihood (2)

Low likelihood (12)

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.