Mansfield Woodhouse Flood Risk

Mansfield Woodhouse has no mapped rivers-and-sea flood risk: neither the national risk assessment nor the planning Flood Zone map covers it. That is not a statement that Mansfield Woodhouse cannot flood — this figure covers rivers and the sea only, and surface water flooding is not included. The nearest gauge is 1.6 km away.

Mansfield Woodhouse has 19,298 residents and 9,071 homes. Ranked equal 3078 of 7,114 — the places where the national risk assessment maps no rivers-and-sea exposure for any home, so the position is a tie rather than a low score.

What Is The River Level Near Mansfield Woodhouse Right Now?

0.272 m within its typical range
Gauge
Mansfield The Dykes, Mansfield
Distance
1.6 km from the centre of Mansfield Woodhouse
Typical range
0.246 m to 1 m
Reading taken
20 Sept, 14:00 UTC

Read from the Environment Agency flood-monitoring feed at 20 Sept, 14:34 UTC. The highest level on record here is 1.634 m , reached on 11 June 1993.

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What Does Mansfield Woodhouse's Flood Risk Classification Mean?

0% of postcodes in Mansfield Woodhouse sit in Flood Zone 3, the planning band for land with a 1% or greater annual chance of river flooding or 0.5% or greater of sea flooding — and the map that draws it deliberately ignores flood defences.

The flood risk band for rivers and the sea is not mapped here, which means the national assessment finds no rivers-and-sea exposure for Mansfield Woodhouse's homes rather than a low amount of it. That is a statement about rivers and the sea only: surface water flooding is not included, and it is the larger source nationally.

Flood Zone versus flood risk band: the full comparison

Which Postcode Districts Cover Mansfield Woodhouse?

Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Mansfield Woodhouse. The band is the one shared by most of that district's postcodes, so it describes the district rather than a single street — enter a full postcode in the checker for one address. A district can cover more than one town, and the district pages linked from the checker are keyed to the town that holds most of its postcodes.

Postcode districts covering Mansfield Woodhouse, with the flood risk band shared by most of each district's postcodes. A district can span more than one local area, so its band is a summary and not a property-level answer.
Postcode district Postcodes here Rivers and sea band Surface water addresses
NG19 433 Low 958
NG18 1 Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district not published for this district

"Not mapped" is not "no risk". It means no rivers-and-sea band covers that district in the source — surface water can still flood it, and both Camden and Islington flooded from surface water in July 2021 while carrying no mapped rivers-and-sea band.

What Else Is Near Mansfield Woodhouse?

Other places on the River Maun, nearest to Mansfield Woodhouse first.