Does Wylam flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 26 postcodes in Wylam 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 237 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 Wylam

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Wylam watch Stocksfield Burn, River Pont, River Derwent, River Tyne, Ouse Burn.

• Stocksfield Ridley Mill
  Stocksfield Burn · 7.2 km away 0.25 m
  below normal · steady · 32 min ago
• Stamfordham
  River Pont · 7.8 km away 0.67 m
  normal range · 32 min ago
• Blackhall Mill
  River Derwent · 7.9 km away 0.11 m
  normal range · rising · 32 min ago
• Bywell
  River Tyne · 8.3 km away 1.10 m
  normal range · falling · 32 min ago
• Rowlands Gill
  River Derwent · 8.4 km away 0.15 m
  normal range · steady · 32 min ago
• Woolsington
  Ouse Burn · 9.2 km away 0.07 m
  normal range · rising · 47 min ago
• Callerton Lane
  River Pont · 9.4 km away 0.17 m
  normal range · rising · 32 min ago
• Riding Mill
  River Tyne · 9.4 km away 1.22 m
  normal range · 32 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Wylam'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 Wylam

9 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Wylam. The EA has issued 11 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 8 Apr 2024.

• 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 2.1 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 3.4 km
• Properties at Ridley Mill, Guessburn and Stocksfield including Brumwell Court, Burnside Cottages and Hall Farm Close
  no warning on record since 2006 7.1 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 7.9 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 8.4 km
• Properties around The Pavilion, Hexham Road, and The Covers
  no warning on record since 2006 8.6 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 8.8 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 9.6 km
• Properties at Ebchester Bridge, Blackhall Mill, Lintzford Grange and Rowlands Gill
  no warning on record since 2006 10.0 km

Recorded floods near Wylam

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

• 9 Feb 2020 — 09/02/2020 Storm Ciara - Ovingham - Simple marker outline as extent not know Ordinary watercourse
• 5 Jan 2016 — Ovington in 2016 Main river
• 5 Jan 2016 — Ovingham in 2016 Main river
• 4 Jan 2016 — Storm Frank in Ovingham 4-7 January 2016 Ordinary watercourse
• 26 Dec 2015 — Storm Eva in Ovingham 26 December 2015 Main river
• 5 Dec 2015 — Storm Desmond in Prudhoe 5-6 December 2015 Main river
• 5 Dec 2015 — Storm Desmond in Ovingham 5-6 December 2015 Main river
• 4 Dec 2015 — Ovington in 2015 Main river
• 28 Jun 2012 — Ovingham 28 June 2012 - SW Drainage
• 6 Sep 2008 — River Derwent Rural Main river
• 6 Sep 2008 — Ovingham Road, Ovingham, Northumberland Drainage
• 6 Sep 2008 — Ovingham (Whittle Burn), Northumberland Ordinary watercourse

…and 17 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Wylam

Wylam gets about 711 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 73 mm; driest March, 45 mm). That is 39% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.4 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (6.2 km away), recorded 4.6 mm in the last 24 hours and 43.9 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 32 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Wylam

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

Low likelihood (2)

Very low likelihood (24)

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.