Does Wolverhampton flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 57 postcodes in Wolverhampton 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 393 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 Wolverhampton

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Wolverhampton watch Smestow Brook, River Penk, Saredon Brook, Ford Brook, River Tame.

• Wightwick
  Smestow Brook · 5.9 km away 0.08 m
  below normal · steady · 44 min ago
• Coven
  River Penk · 6.9 km away 0.77 m
  normal range · 29 min ago
• Deepmore Farm
  Saredon Brook · 7.5 km away 0.51 m
  normal range · falling · 29 min ago
• Walsall
  Ford Brook · 8.9 km away 0.28 m
  normal range · 29 min ago
• Park Hill
  River Tame · 9.1 km away 0.27 m
  normal range · 44 min ago
• Bescot
  River Tame · 9.9 km away 0.97 m
  normal range · 44 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Wolverhampton'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 Wolverhampton

15 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Wolverhampton. The EA has issued 61 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 23 Oct 2026.

• Waterhead Brook at Bushbury, Wolverhampton from Northycote Lane to Stafford Road
  5 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 3.1 km
• Smestow Brook at Wightwick and Compton
  no warning on record since 2006 5.7 km
• River Penk at Coven
  7 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2024 6.8 km
• Saredon Brook at Standeford near Coven
  32 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 7.1 km
• River Tame at Golds Hill from Waterside Park to Smith Road
  no warning on record since 2006 8.8 km
• Saredon Brook at Wedges Mills, Cannock
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Sep 2024 8.8 km
• Ford Brook at Walsall Town Centre including Lower North Street, Lichfield Street, Bridgeman Street and Long Street
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest May 2018 8.9 km
• Ford Brook at Bescot including Bescot Crescent and Wednesbury Road
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest May 2018 9.0 km
• River Tame at Holloway Bank from Smith Road to Woden Road South
  no warning on record since 2006 9.1 km
• River Penk at Somerford
  12 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2024 9.1 km
• River Tame at Wednesbury including Hydes Road, The Woods and Bescot areas
  no warning on record since 2006 9.2 km
• Ridings Brook at Bridgetown, Cannock including parts of Walsall Road and Longford Industrial Estate
  no warning on record since 2006 9.3 km

Recorded floods near Wolverhampton

None mapped within ~5 km of Wolverhampton.

No recorded outline within ~5 km of Wolverhampton 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 Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton gets about 741 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 74 mm; driest March, 50 mm). That is 36% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.8 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (3.0 km away), recorded 0.4 mm in the last 24 hours and 63.4 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 44 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Wolverhampton

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

High likelihood (7)

Medium likelihood (17)

Low likelihood (33)

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.