Does BD6 flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in BD6: none of its 2 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The BD6 postcode district covers Royds, Wibsey, close to Bradford Greenside, Oakenshaw Wyke Bottoms, Bailiff Bridge, and surrounding villages in West Yorkshire.

2 postcodes in the BD6 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 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 BD6 postcodes are at risk?

BD6 2HL up to Low BD6 3NS up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near BD6

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

Bradford Greenside on the Bradford Beck — 3.6 km away, highest on record 1.94m
Oakenshaw Wyke Bottoms on the Low Moor Beck — 3.6 km away, highest on record 1.91m
Bailiff Bridge on the Clifton Beck — 4.6 km away, highest on record 2.32m
Cleckheaton Hightown Road on the Blacup Beck — 7 km away, highest on record 0.78m

197 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (135 at warning level or above), most recently 26 January 2026. 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 4.3 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 10.2 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 54.6 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

BD7 BD8 BD10 BD2 BD1 BD12 BD13 BD14

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.