Does BD16 flood?

Yes — parts of the BD16 district carry real flood risk: 31 of its 62 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BD16 postcode district covers Bingley Rural, Bingley, Bingley East, Keighley East, close to Catcliffe Drain, Cottingley, Saltaire, and surrounding villages in parts of West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire.

62 postcodes in the BD16 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 31 high, 9 medium, 21 low, 1 very 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 BD16 postcodes are at risk?

BD16 1FJ up to High BD16 1HP up to High BD16 1HS up to High BD16 1JT up to High BD16 1LS up to High BD16 1LT up to High BD16 1LU up to High BD16 1LX up to High BD16 1NE up to High BD16 1NS up to High BD16 1SB up to High BD16 1TF up to High BD16 1TG up to High BD16 1TR up to High BD16 1TZ up to High BD16 2AB up to High BD16 2AE up to High BD16 2AF up to High BD16 2AG up to High BD16 2DU up to High BD16 2EE up to High BD16 2HA up to High BD16 2JN up to High BD16 2JP up to High BD16 2JW up to High BD16 2QX up to High BD16 2RA up to High BD16 2RH up to High BD16 2RJ up to High BD16 2RL up to High BD16 2UA up to High BD16 1LR up to Medium BD16 1SA up to Medium BD16 1SU up to Medium BD16 1SZ up to Medium BD16 1TP up to Medium BD16 2DN up to Medium BD16 2EG up to Medium BD16 2EP up to Medium BD16 2JH up to Medium BD16 1AR up to Low BD16 1BE up to Low BD16 1DF up to Low BD16 1HX up to Low BD16 1JX up to Low BD16 1LQ up to Low BD16 1PA up to Low BD16 1PF up to Low BD16 1SE up to Low BD16 1SX up to Low BD16 1TQ up to Low BD16 1TT up to Low BD16 1TY up to Low BD16 2BE up to Low BD16 2DL up to Low BD16 2DT up to Low BD16 2ER up to Low BD16 2QE up to Low BD16 2QF up to Low BD16 2QY up to Low BD16 2SF up to Low BD16 2LU up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near BD16

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

78 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (78 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):

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.