Does BD1 flood?

Yes — parts of the BD1 district carry real flood risk: 57 of its 75 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BD1 postcode district covers City, Bolton and Undercliffe, close to Bradford Greenside, Saltaire, Oakenshaw Wyke Bottoms, and surrounding villages in West Yorkshire.

75 postcodes in the BD1 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 57 high, 11 medium, 7 low. A postcode not listed here has no properties in any recorded risk band (which is good news, but never proof it cannot flood).

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Which BD1 postcodes are at risk?

BD1 1AF up to High BD1 1AG up to High BD1 1EE up to High BD1 1EG up to High BD1 1EJ up to High BD1 1EY up to High BD1 1EZ up to High BD1 1HA up to High BD1 1HB up to High BD1 1HD up to High BD1 1HJ up to High BD1 1HX up to High BD1 1HZ up to High BD1 1JB up to High BD1 1JD up to High BD1 1JE up to High BD1 1JN up to High BD1 1LH up to High BD1 1LW up to High BD1 1NE up to High BD1 1NF up to High BD1 1PH up to High BD1 1RJ up to High BD1 1SD up to High BD1 1SQ up to High BD1 1TW up to High BD1 2AY up to High BD1 2AZ up to High BD1 2BX up to High BD1 2DX up to High BD1 2EE up to High BD1 2EP up to High BD1 2ER up to High BD1 2ES up to High BD1 2JD up to High BD1 2JH up to High BD1 2JN up to High BD1 2JS up to High BD1 2JT up to High BD1 2LB up to High BD1 2NS up to High BD1 4AA up to High BD1 4AB up to High BD1 4AG up to High BD1 4AH up to High BD1 4AY up to High BD1 4HU up to High BD1 4RA up to High BD1 4RB up to High BD1 4RF up to High BD1 4RP up to High BD1 4RU up to High BD1 4RY up to High BD1 4SF up to High BD1 4UG up to High BD1 4XY up to High BD1 9SG up to High BD1 1AH up to Medium BD1 1JR up to Medium BD1 1US up to Medium BD1 2HS up to Medium BD1 4AF up to Medium BD1 4AJ up to Medium BD1 4BQ up to Medium BD1 4RH up to Medium BD1 4RX up to Medium BD1 5NE up to Medium BD1 9SU up to Medium BD1 1LA up to Low BD1 1RU up to Low BD1 1RX up to Low BD1 2DG up to Low BD1 2JX up to Low BD1 4SD up to Low BD1 4SR up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near BD1

The rivers that matter here, each monitored live on FloodRadar:

211 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (79 at warning level or above), most recently 11 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

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Band = the worst likelihood band of any property in that postcode (EA Risk of Flooding from Rivers & Sea, defence-adjusted, area-level). Check any postcode in detail — or get the full £19 property report — at the property flood-risk report. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH). © Crown Copyright and Database Rights 2025 OS AC0000807064. This product is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, the copyright in which is owned by Royal Mail Group Limited and/or Royal Mail Group plc. All rights reserved. Licence number AC0000807064.