Does BD14 flood?

Yes — parts of the BD14 district carry real flood risk: 1 of its 3 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BD14 postcode district covers Clayton and Fairweather Green, Thornton and Allerton, close to Bradford Greenside, Cottingley, Saltaire, and surrounding villages in West Yorkshire.

3 postcodes in the BD14 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 high, 1 medium, 1 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 BD14 postcodes are at risk?

BD14 6TA up to High BD14 6PZ up to Medium BD14 6RZ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near BD14

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

Bradford Greenside on the Bradford Beck — 2.9 km away, highest on record 1.94m
Cottingley Bridge on the River Aire — 5.9 km away, highest on record 3.34m
Shipley on the Bradford Beck — 6.7 km away, highest on record 2.81m
Saltaire on the River Aire — 6.7 km away, highest on record 2.84m

84 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (84 at warning level or above), most recently 1 January 2025. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

2022 February Flood Incident -Storm Dudley, Eunice and Franklin (2022) — about 6.1 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 9.4 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 57.1 km from the centre

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

BD13 BD15 BD12 BD16 BD17 BD10 BD18 BD19

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.